Re: Is there a way to identify all of a user's logins?

From: Alexander Nickolov (agnickolov_at_mvps.org)
Date: 10/27/04 

Date: Wed, 27 Oct 2004 16:16:46 -0700

Will WNetAddConnection2() do the job for you? 

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"rhnewbie" <rhnewbie@discussions.microsoft.com> wrote in message 
news:C19C0D44-4B6E-42E7-8FDC-CCEE24417F52@microsoft.com...
> What I'm trying to accomplish is this:
>
> We have an in-house, enterprise application which, for years, has run with
> it's data hosted on a Novell file server.  Our users log in to their
> workstations as local users and into Novell.  When they launch our app, we
> use a 3rd party utility to query Novell for the username with which they
> logged into Novell.  Our app uses that user name to look up their 
> permissions
> within the app ... which keeps our users from having to "log in" to our
> application.
>
> Our system administrators are now trying to get rid of Novell and move us 
> to
> a Windows server.  We really do not want to begin making our users log in 
> to
> our application but would prefer to use their domain userid much like we 
> do
> with Novell.  However, we don't know of any way to find out what userid 
> was
> used to log into the Windows file server (as part of the domain).
>
> Actually, if the user logs into the local workstation and the domain (i.e.
> the file server in a domain) with the same userid, we could handle that 
> ...
> however, we can't guarantee that this would be the case.
>
> Any ideas?
>
> "Eugene Gershnik" wrote:
>
>> rhnewbie wrote:
>> > Okay, lets try this again.
>> >
>> > If a user logs into a local machine with one username & password,
>> > then logs into a server as a domain user using a different username &
>> > password (while still logged into the local machine)), is there any
>> > way to find out all the different machines the user is logged into,
>> > what username they used to log in with and which logins are local and
>> > which are part of a domain?
>>
>> Not easily. You can instrument all domain controllers to track logon 
>> request
>> from the domain. Then you will have a nasty problem to know when the user 
>> is
>> no longer there (logoff won't help you there, on a dc it happens 
>> regardless
>> of whether the user actually logged off)
>> Alternatively you can put a small agent on all machines in the domain to
>> intercept all logons at their source.
>>
>> Maybe you should explain what do you need this information for. 9 times 
>> out
>> of 10 the real goal can be accomplished by other means.
>>
>> --
>> Eugene
>>
>>
>>
>>

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