I searched around here and the net, but could not find the answer. I'm trying to find the IP address of a machine/user using Active Directory and am unsure if this is possible. The basic idea is that since the machine already has an IP, the user would then use that IP to request authentication, so that IP would be associated w/ the user for the duration of that session.
I have been wrong before, so my logic my be flawed. Anyway, any assistance would be ideal. Thanks in advance :D
Why would you ever want to use the IP for authentication??? Any request coming from that IP would then be assumed to be the said user, which may not be the case. A user may have several IP's (logged on multiple machines) and several users may have the same IP. Not good. You already have user-level authentication mechanisms in place... If you're using browser authentication you can take advantage of the integrated authentication in IE (and even Firefox ;) )
The basic thought was that the IP address(es) used to login would be stored and that the last IP would, in theory, be where the user last logged in from. The reason I am trying to get this information is so that I can remote into the system to diagnose issues w/o asking the user for his/her IP/machine name.
Run a login script and store the addresses in a database or even a flat file. Or use something like bginfo and the users will have all the data on their screen.
Thanks for the suggestions. I was kind of hoping that there was already something in place through AD. However, the login script idea does have promise :)
At my current workplace, remote access is the primary form of assistance when they call the helpdesk. Usualy we put a sticker on the physical computer with the computer name, otherwise the call center guys are real good at getting the computer name from the user. Also many clients are aware of the questions that are going to be asked when calling in, so they will often have the computername already handy.
Small example for login script who logs IP User Machine:
Echo ----New Entry computer log Entry--- >> \\server\share\netlog.txt
echo echo %date% - %time% >> \\server\share\netlog.txt
Echo User %username% has logged to %computername% >> \\server\share\netlog.txt
ipconfig >> \\server\share\netlog.txt
You can obviously play with this a little bit but the general idea is the same
Cheers,
abriel