Checking for a logged on user on XP

[Kas Robson]

Greg Vickers wrote:

> Just wondering if anyone had cooked up a method for checking if a 
> specific user (or any user) is logged onto a XP machine?
> 
> We have print stations that have to auto-logon, so we'd like to check 
> that the logon for this user is successful.
> 
> Hmm just had a thought - use NRPE_NT to check environment vars?

 From a *nix machine, the nmblookup tool (with the -A flag, iirc), which 
is part of the Samba project, can be used to determine the user logged 
in to a Windoze host, and it's possible to write a plug-in which wraps 
around this and checks the output to see if the "required" user is 
logged in.

--
Kas Robson - Systems and Networks Engineer
DataCash Ltd.



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