Re: Obtaining the logged in user from a remote machine

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From: Dale Preston (dalepres_at_nospam.nospam)
Date: 03/18/05 

Date: Thu, 17 Mar 2005 18:57:30 -0600

How to get the logged in user on a remote machine using WMI:

http://www.microsoft.com/technet/scriptcenter/scripts/desktop/logon/dmlgvb02.mspx

How to use WMI in C#:

http://www.csharphelp.com/archives2/archive334.html

HTH

DalePres
MCAD, MCDBA, MCSE

"Sam Evans" <wintrmte@gmail.com> wrote in message
news:a62dnXfh74wsJ6TfRVn-2w@giganews.com...
> All,
>
> I am trying to figure out how I can obtain the userid of an individual
> who's logged into a PC by using a remote call. What I'm ultimately
> attempting to do is something along the lines of 'nbtstat' where it
> shows the domain and the userid who is logged in.
>
> Does anyone have any C# code they can point me to, or perhaps some MSDN
> information?
>
> Thank you,
> Sam

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