Comments on: Finding Logged In Users by IP using Samba/AD http://blog.schmichael.com/2006/11/17/finding-logged-in-users-by-ip-using-sambaad/ good good study, day day up Fri, 10 Feb 2012 11:50:00 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.2.1 By: find ip address http://blog.schmichael.com/2006/11/17/finding-logged-in-users-by-ip-using-sambaad/comment-page-1/#comment-37712 find ip address Tue, 30 Sep 2008 05:54:55 +0000 http://michael.susens-schurter.com/blog/2006/11/17/finding-logged-in-users-by-ip-using-sambaad/#comment-37712 yea, thats kinda complicated, isn't there a simpler way? yea, thats kinda complicated, isn’t there a simpler way?

]]> By: Christian Wyglendowski http://blog.schmichael.com/2006/11/17/finding-logged-in-users-by-ip-using-sambaad/comment-page-1/#comment-2511 Christian Wyglendowski Wed, 22 Nov 2006 03:38:35 +0000 http://michael.susens-schurter.com/blog/2006/11/17/finding-logged-in-users-by-ip-using-sambaad/#comment-2511 Hhhhmmm...that sounds tricky. I looked at the Samba "net" command, and while you can do a ton of stuff with it, it looks like getting the remote logged in user is not one of them. I know I did this from one Windows machine to another back at GC. It's pretty easy in that environment, what with WMI and all. Since you have 500 Windows systems on your network, why not create a simple web service on one of your Win boxes that lets you query a remote logged in user? You could use XML-RPC or even just good ol' HTTP. I don't know how often this service would be getting queried though. If you are hitting it frequently, you could even cache the results for a short time, as long as you are willing to accept a small margin of error. This would be a great project to get your feet wet with Python. ;-) It has great Win32 API support, and using WMI is a breeze. For the web part, I would have to recommend <a href="http://www.cherrypy.org" rel="nofollow">CherryPy</a>. :-D Ok, enough marketing. Hope you get something figured out. Christian Hhhhmmm…that sounds tricky. I looked at the Samba “net” command, and while you can do a ton of stuff with it, it looks like getting the remote logged in user is not one of them. I know I did this from one Windows machine to another back at GC. It’s pretty easy in that environment, what with WMI and all.

Since you have 500 Windows systems on your network, why not create a simple web service on one of your Win boxes that lets you query a remote logged in user? You could use XML-RPC or even just good ol’ HTTP. I don’t know how often this service would be getting queried though. If you are hitting it frequently, you could even cache the results for a short time, as long as you are willing to accept a small margin of error.

This would be a great project to get your feet wet with Python. ;-) It has great Win32 API support, and using WMI is a breeze. For the web part, I would have to recommend CherryPy. :-D

Ok, enough marketing. Hope you get something figured out.

Christian

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