UserID - MachineID

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Stephen Yale

I have a list of user ID's that I know I have to install
some software on. Before I go trudging around 3 sites I
could use remote registry to check that any pre-requistes
such as Oracle client etc are in place.

I know that I use the machine ID within the domain to
point the remote registry function to and I have
workstation admin rights on all the machines in the domain.

There are 1000's of machines connected and I only have the
user id.

If I know the machine id I can use nbtstat to return the
user logged on to the machine.

What I need is a reverse look-up to get me the machine id
if I only know the user id.

I know that thehe is software that effectively automates
the nbtstat function by sequentially polling a list of
IP's but this is very tedious and it is probably taking up
a fair amount of bandwidth.

When the machine logs on to the network is there a log
file generated that I could query and if so where is the
log file?

Will Active Directory help me connect the users with their
respective machines.

The only other way I can think of is to query a database
that looks after asset management. This is not kept up to
date that much and will not tell me that the user has
logged into any other machine within the domain

How do I get the machine name if I ony know the user id?

Regards
Stephen
 
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