Who is logged in on a remote server?
We once suffered a terrible problem where windows user admin account passwords were reset every day, and as such, if you'd left yourself logged in on a remote server, your account would become locked out, requiring a phone call to unlock.
Trying to work out who, if anyone, was logged in on a remote server seemed quite tricky. Now I know better -- use the quser.exe tool, or the query.exe tool.
Quser.exe
With quser.exe seeing who is logged onto a server is as simple as --
From one server, SERVER-A, ask who is logged in on SERVER-B
quser.exe /server:SERVER-B
e.g.
USERNAME SESSIONNAME ID STATE IDLE TIME LOGON TIME lbambrick 2 Disc 28 3/02/2023 7:36 PM
With Query.exe
Similarly -- you can run "query user /server:SERVER-B"
Query has these possibilities:
QUERY { PROCESS | SESSION | TERMSERVER | USER }
Where Query user has these:
query user /?
Display information about users logged on to the system.
QUERY USER [username | sessionname | sessionid] [/SERVER:servername]
username Identifies the username.
sessionname Identifies the session named sessionname.
sessionid Identifies the session with ID sessionid.
/SERVER:servername The server to be queried (default is current).