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tearman
Asked: 2010-04-28 07:25:24 +0800 CST

finger for Windows

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Ok probably a bit of an odd question, but is there a way to enable "finger" like functionality on a Windows network?

we'd basically like the ability to find out where a user is logged in on a network and possibly which users are logged onto a workstation if possible.

We're currently on AD2003 functional level, with the intent of going to AD2008 very soon, so compatibility in that arena is preferable.

windows unix active-directory

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  1. Best Answer

    Both of those tasks are available via Mark Russinovich’s PsLoggedOn tool.

    To find out who is logged on to a computer:

    psloggedon \\computername

    To find out where a user is logged on in a domain:

    psloggedon username
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  2. in Powershell you would do:

    gwmi win32_computersystem -computer $computers | select name , username

    Where $computers is a list of the computers you want to check. You cna get that via file:

    $computers = get-content c:\server.txt

    or via AD see How Can I Use Windows PowerShell to Get a List of All My Computers?

    and if you want turn the wmi call into a function and alias it to finger

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  3. Not really, but you can get the information you are looking for with some scripting.

    Set objWMIService = GetObject("winmgmts:{impersonationLevel=impersonate}!\\COMPUTERNAME\root\cimv2") 
Set colComputer = objWMIService.ExecQuery ("Select * from Win32_ComputerSystem")
For Each objComputer in colComputer
    Wscript.Echo objComputer.UserName
Next

    You could get a list of your workstations, either via text file or AD query and run that for each workstation. I'm sure there is a way to do something similar with PowerShell too.

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  4. nbtscan.exe is useful tool.

    http://www.unixwiz.net/tools/nbtscan.html

    It not only scan's shares it also indicates who signed on.

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