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Whoison Network Tool

30 June 2008 641 views No Comment

 

Did you know – you can find out who is logged on to a particular PC on your network with the whoison.exe utility.

To use the utility, save it to your local hard drive or your network drive. I have it saved to the root of my C: drive for ease of access.  Run it from a DOS command prompt, (see example below): Type C:\whoison \\computername

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Use the /h switch to get a history of users on the PC:
whoison /h \\nameofcomputer
Use the pipe command to send the results to a text file:
whoison /h \\nameofcomputer > filename .txt
or
whoison /h \\nameofcomputer > filename.csv (to import into a spreadsheet, useful when trying to determine last logged on)
When using the pipe switch, > creates a new file or overwrites an existing file, >> creates an new file or appends to an existing one.

You can download the Whoison tool here

 

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