Hi,
I am on a network with all computers on the same domain.
It is a network system in which users have logins and quotas.
Is there a way to find out the hostname of a computer on which a user(specified by the username) is logged on?

Thanks in advance.
Pramod

Try the command 'w'

'w' shows the users logged on to the computer I am working on.
I want to find the IP of a computer on which a given user is logged on.

Pramod

Try 'w -f'

Hi,
'w -f' does the same thing as w.
I need to find users online on a network.
For Example, if X is logged on to the computer beside me. i need a command which'll tell me that X has logged on to the computer beside me(in terms of IP).

Pramod

"who" or "w" will show who is logged onto the current machine (and display the ip from where they are connected, like if someone ssh's into the box)

Are you talking about people logged into their own machines? Like bob starts up his xp machine on the network you are on, and you want to know bob's ip address?

Exactly, but Bob is logged on to his linux machine not XP.
I want to know the IP of Bob's computer, given that Bob and I are in the same domain.


Pramod

I don't think you'll be able to do that unless you are using some form of central authentication such as NIS or LDAP.

A program you can use to look up remote logons is 'finger' but it is not secure; I've never used it and I don't recommend it.

If your are running Samba on all the computers then you'll be able to view the NetBIOS Table which gets copied to all the computers. For that you can use the program 'nbtscan' on your LAN - it will print the computer name, ip address and sometimes the mac address too - I always thought of that as another reason why Windows networking is so insecure.

if you want to find other people on the network, windows/linux boxes.

you could try

[HTML]arp -a[/HTML]

you could also use

nmblookup if your hooked up with samba.

findsmb does the same thing as nbtscan - I just had not used nbtscan for so long. Try findsmb.

if it's available, you want: rusers

e.g.: rusers -al

Hi

rusers is not working. it is not giving any output.
Please help

thanks
Pramod