I am rambling, anyhow - what I need is a way of getting the userid who is currently logged on to a machine, ideally in a file so I can parse it.

Thanks in advance
Mark

[ 23 July 2001: Message edited by: Mark Antrobus ]

This code should give you a file with one line in it wich is the current logged on user. It is the complete 'user'-line that NBTSTAT returns, so you have to strip the first part if you only want the username.

code:

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$station="WORKSTATION"
$tmpfile="%temp%\tmpfile.$$$"
DEL $tmpfile
Shell '%comspec% /c nbtstat -a $station | find "<03>" | find /v "$station" > $tmpfile'

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Let us know if you need anymore help with it.

Many thanks for such a lightening fast response

Mark

I tried doing this very type of thing a long while ago using SysInternals "loggedon". Which never kept everything in order. At present I've got control of the logon script and am recording the userid and a bunch of other stuff to an INI. I just read out when and who last logged on, if anyone is loggedon.

code:

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nbtstat -a WORKSTA1 | find "<03>" | find /v "WORKSTA1" 

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would give you a single line of

code:

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    USER1         <03>  UNIQUE      Registered

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very neat!
Mark

It cannot see if someone happens to be loggedon more than once. If someone logged on to machine A and then logs on to machine B(While still loggedon to A) this way will show no one logged on machine B.