[THIN] Re: Determining which user a TS 2003 per-device CAL license is issued to
- From: "Steve Raffensberger" <sraffens1@xxxxxxxxxxx>
- To: <thin@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
- Date: Fri, 11 Jun 2004 12:54:08 -0400
MessageMichael,
I don't know of any tool that will give you exactly what you want. As far as
I know, client information is logged on the license server but no user info.
On the application server, the opposite is true...user info but no client
info.
A simplest way to do what you want is probably a logon script. Depending on
where you want it to log, you could simply echo %USERNAME% and %CLIENTNAME%
into a file on a shared drive. Another alternative (since you seem to want
to see this in the event logs) is to have the logon script call Eventcreate
from the W2K3 resource kit utilities. This seems to be the new, improved
version of Logevent that I've used for things like this in the past.
Good luck,
Raff
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Subject: [THIN] Re: Determining which user a TS 2003 per-device CAL
license is issued to
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From: Jeremy Thomas [mailto:jeremy.thomas@xxxxxxxxx]
Sent: Friday, June 11, 2004 5:42 AM
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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
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From: Leone, Michael [mailto:MLeone@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx]
Sent: donderdag 10 juni 2004 22:02
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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).
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