Re: report showing who logged in/out of nt 4 server

From: Eric Fitzgerald [Microsoft] (ericf@online.microsoft.com)
Date: 03/13/02 

From: "Eric Fitzgerald [Microsoft]" <ericf@online.microsoft.com>
Date: Tue, 12 Mar 2002 15:51:04 -0800

It's easier than that. Use "User Manager" to enable auditing of
logon/logoff success events, and the security log will maintain this record.
It's also more secure because the users don't have to have read or write
permission to the log file (in the logon script solution, the users must be
able to write to the log file, introducing the possibility of tampering).

The DUMPEL.EXE utility from the Resource Kit will allow you to create a
report any time, and you can use Excel to analyze the report. 

--
Eric Fitzgerald
Program Manager, Windows Auditing

This posting is provided "AS IS" with no warranties, and confers no rights.

"Al Dunbar" <LuigiDunbar@hotmail.com> wrote in message
news:DrCh8.87073$kb.5433857@news1.calgary.shaw.ca...
> Do you have login scripts? If so, add code to them to capture the info you
> want (date, time, username, workstation name, more?) and write it to a
file.
> Then write a script that you run periodically to load this info into
excel.
>
> We have done this in batch and kixtart, and may soon re-do it in WSH.
>
> /Al
>
> "robot" <nospam@antispam.com> wrote in message
> news:I1ph8.27550$ro5.12983450@typhoon.ne.ipsvc.net...
> > Newbie admin here with basic need. I would like to get a weekly report
> > showing when users have logged into and out of our win nt 4 server.
> Ideally,
> > it should be in a format I could read with Access, but I'm willing to
> settle
> > for anything, at least to start.
> >
> > I would expect this to be easy and basic, but I'm not sure where to
look.
> >
> > All suggestions appreciated.
> >
> > thanks
> >
> >
>
>

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