-----Original Message----- From: Jeremy Thomas [mailto:jeremy.thomas@xxxxxxxxx] Sent: Friday, June 11, 2004 5:42 AM To: thin@xxxxxxxxxxxxx Subject: [THIN] Re: Determining which user a TS 2003 per-device CAL licens e is issued to A TSCAL is a per device license, so it's not issued to a user at all, but to a device. It looks like you can't find the information you're looking for because nobody has seen the logic in making that information trackable. When you log on to a terminal server, you log on to the server - you're already logged on to the client (if it's a client that requires a logon), therefore it has to take the server name as the logon computer. MJL: Yes, that makes sense. If "MAIN" is a windows client, and you have security logging set up in the correct way, you should be able to determine (through DC event logs) who was logged on to the "MAIN" computer when the TSCAL was first issued to it, but I don't actually understand what you might acheive by that. The users tab in File Manager should tell you who is currently using the "MAIN" workstation. MJL: Yes, but only if they happen to be online when I'm looking .. and, of course, they never are. :-( I don't think you can tell who loggen in _from_ "MAIN", you can only tell who logged in _to_ "MAIN", and that depends on you having set up the tracking for security for logons & logoffs, and on the nature of the OS on the "MAIN" workstation. MJL: MAIN is a remote computer, not logged into my domain. I have no control over tracking who logs into MAIN; it's somebody's home PC. I'm not following the logic here. I want to know which remote user logged into my TS from the client named "MAIN". For example, when a remote user JFP logs into my TS from his home PC named "MAIN", I want to be able to see that in a log. All of that information. Ideally, to be able to filter the log to show me only client computers named "MAIN" - that would show me logons, which would show me user IDs, and *that* would give me enough information to extrapolate that the license that was issued to client PC "MAIN" is actually for user JFP. And I can then maintain my own list of silly home PC names, and the users associated with them. Is that more clear? Is there a way to do that? I think I've managed to answer the question, but does that do anywhere near resolving the problem? Regards, Jeremy Thomas _____ From: Leone, Michael [mailto:MLeone@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx] Sent: donderdag 10 juni 2004 22:02 To: WinNT List (winnt-L@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx); Thin Client list (thin@xxxxxxxxxxxxx) Subject: [THIN] Determining which user a TS 2003 per-device CAL license is issued to I have a question. I run a WIn2003 Terminal Server. When I check the licensing, it shows that a license has been issued to "MAIN". That's the machine name of someone's PC, obviously. Yet when I check the Event Log, to match up the workstation named "MAIN" with a user, I don't see any entries that reference "MAIN". The LOGON/LOGOFF Security entries are listing users who log on/off, but the "COMPUTER" entry is always the server name. I want to be able to filter the Security log for all entries that reference the user who logged in from a machine named "MAIN"; how can I do that? The "FILTER" command only lists "COMPUTER", which is always the same in all entries (i.e., the TS server name). -- ------------------------------------------------------------ Michael Leone, Systems Administrator Philadelphia Contributionship 210 S. 4th Street, Philadelphia, PA 19106 <mailto:mleone@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx <mailto:mleone@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> > V: 215-627-1752 x1282 F: 215-627-5354