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25-Oct-2006, 10:51 AM #1
View users who have logged into my computer
I have Windows XP Professional on a computer networked into a Windows 2003 network.

Is there a way I can determine who has logged into this machine besides me?

I have tried Administrative Tools-Computer Management-Event Viewer-Security, and can sort by user, BUT - some of the users it lists make no sense, and the detail it lists when double-clicking on an event is gobbelty-gook to me.

Is there a better way to determine successful logins to this machine?

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25-Oct-2006, 10:54 AM #2
If you go to C:\Documents and Settings, there should be a folder for each user that has logged on.
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25-Oct-2006, 11:29 AM #3
Those folders can be deleted by anyone with administrator rights.
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IP address access
Also, for some specific application needs - I have found out that if (on our network) you know a person's IP address - that you can use IE to access others' hard drives.

-Which means that you can literally navigate others hard drives without having to "log in" to the machine. Not A Good Design! Accessing a machine this way would not create a folder under Documents and Settings.

Any other ideas?
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25-Oct-2006, 09:42 PM #5
You can setup Audit Policies for this. You can Audit Account Logon Events and Audit Logon Events. Just setup the policy.

You could also setup a little batch file in their login script. We did this at the school district I worked for. The login script would write to two files. One with the computer name and one with the username. It kept track of that stuff very nicely for us.
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26-Oct-2006, 09:51 AM #6
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Also, for some specific application needs - I have found out that if (on our network) you know a person's IP address - that you can use IE to access others' hard drives.

-Which means that you can literally navigate others hard drives without having to "log in" to the machine. Not A Good Design! Accessing a machine this way would not create a folder under Documents and Settings.

Any other ideas?
That sounds like a permissions issue. You shouldn't be able to access the drive unless it's shared.
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26-Oct-2006, 09:59 AM #7
I think what goatee is stating is that he is concerned about people going to start > run > his ip address, and having access to his folders there, as he is a member of a domain.

Is that accurate, goatee?
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27-Oct-2006, 08:46 AM #8
Actually, what I saw happening was a person getting into Windows Explorer, typing in \\ip-address\c$, and having complete access to another's hard drive. -scary-
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27-Oct-2006, 10:26 AM #9
that's what I meant. I use it dozens of times daily here, when I need to either get something off a users machine, or place something on a users machine.....beats copying it to a usb, then walking to that machine and uploading it.

you can also just type in the the computer name, a la \\mycomputer\c$ and get there, IF the permissions are set.
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