[ActiveDir] Tracking the machine from which user logs in

2004-06-06 Thread Mukul Joshi
Hi, I am writing an application that would track the login logoff activities of users. I can get lastlogin and lastlogoff information from AD, but I also need to know the machine/IP on which that particular login/logoff happened. How do I get this information? Thanks ~ Mukul List info :

RE: [ActiveDir] Tracking the machine from which user logs in

2004-06-06 Thread Marcus.Oh
Mukul, The only way you're going to get that information is from the event log. Of course, there's some filtering you'll want to do as well. Here's a good article on the process: http://www.microsoft.com/technet/prodtechnol/windows2000serv/maintain/mo nitor/logonoff.mspx -m -Original

RE: [ActiveDir] Tracking the machine from which user logs in

2004-06-06 Thread Eric Fleischman
Actually that's not entirely true. If you're running 2k03, we have a new attribute we maintain for this very purpose. This was a FAQ in 2k days. lastLogonTimestamp is the attribute you're looking for. Here's a page or two on it:

RE: [ActiveDir] install software on OU

2004-06-06 Thread Darren Mar-Elia
Dan- There are some limitations on .zap files but that is probably your best bet if you don't want to repackage. If you go here: www.gpoguy.com/faqs.htm I have an FAQ on creating .zap files. Darren -Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] on behalf of [EMAIL

RE: [ActiveDir] locate DC, no DNS

2004-06-06 Thread joe
The #DOM entry will create a 1C entry for the domain on the local box when queried, if you add the #PRE it will actually stick it in your netbios cache right away and won't expire... However, Windows 2K+ machines hitting Windows 2K+ domains don't use WINS, they use DNS. Unfortunately the hosts

RE: [ActiveDir] [OT] LDAP filter

2004-06-06 Thread joe
I was actually trying to think of somethingthat would work in this schema a while back and couldn't figure out anything that made sense. Possibly going around looking for old computers and users or something, but a lot of work for little gain. From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL

RE: [ActiveDir] AD Health check

2004-06-06 Thread joe
Another thing you might have is garbage data in AD that 2K replicates around fine but plugs up 2K3 DC, that should however show up in the eventlog, last time it happened to me it was a bad value on a printer attribute and the DC was throwing schema mismatch errors in the event log. joe

Re: [ActiveDir] Tracking the machine from which user logs in

2004-06-06 Thread Steve Patrick
There is also an app called CConnect - or concurrent connections. This requires a SQL backend (or msde I suppose) but the next version will use NDNC's if I recall. See http://support.microsoft.com/?kbid=237282 -steve - Original Message - From: Eric Fleischman [EMAIL PROTECTED] To:

RE: [ActiveDir] AD in NATed environments

2004-06-06 Thread Grillenmeier, Guido
thanks for your input Willem - yes, I was also thinking about somethink like VPN, but maybe in a dual-homed manner = one of the legs for replication between DCs accross NATed sites, another one for authentication in the respective site...There's no way I can change all resources in the

RE: [ActiveDir] Tracking the machine from which user logs in

2004-06-06 Thread AD
We are doing it using logon scripts. Using vbscript and WMI you can get anything you want. The captured data is then stored on a share and then processed by another application. We did it this way not to increase login times. Y -Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL

Re: [ActiveDir] adding PCs

2004-06-06 Thread Kenny Lee
Title: RE: [ActiveDir] adding PCs but seems like i am having problem on domain users joining the domain.. any thoughts? any groups that i can assign them like authentication usersgroup? thanks in advanced. ken - Original Message - From: Creamer, Mark To: [EMAIL

RE: [ActiveDir] Tracking the machine from which user logs in

2004-06-06 Thread [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Once upon a time I wrote a very short program that prints your current IP address to stdout. It's handy in a login script -- for example, you can do something like this (the exact syntax escapes me at the moment): myip.exe \\some-big-server\whereami\%USERNAME%.txt right in the login script.

RE: [ActiveDir] Tracking the machine from which user logs in

2004-06-06 Thread Deji Akomolafe
I don't think CConnect was ever fully (and successfully) implemented. Ibelieve it was a theory that died midway. The reason I say this is becauseI have yet to meet anyone who uses it in production, and I personally spent a lot of time trying to make it work some 4 years ago. For what Mukul is