ddsdax

Nbtstat with Vista
Good morning/afternoon/evening,
I am a network engineer tasked with inventorying which users are attached to which switch ports. With Windows 2000/XP, all we had to do was run a utility that uses the same functionality as "nbtstat -A x.x.x.x".
When running this command and connecting to a W2k/WXP computer we would get, among the other results, the name of the logged on user as seen in the results below:

Local Area Connection 2:
Node IpAddress: [x.x.x.x] Scope Id: []

NetBIOS Remote Machine Name Table

Name Type Status
--------------------------------------------
computer1 <00> UNIQUE Registered
computer1 <20> UNIQUE Registered
workgroup <00> GROUP Registered
computer1 <03> UNIQUE Registered
workgroup <1E> GROUP Registered
KSADLER <03> UNIQUE Registered

MAC Address = 00-30-xx-xx-xx-xx

When connecting to a Vista computer (Enterprise SP1) we get the following results:

Local Area Connection 2:
Node IpAddress: [x.x.x.x] Scope Id: []

NetBIOS Remote Machine Name Table

Name Type Status
--------------------------------------------
computer1 <00> UNIQUE Registered
computer1 <20> UNIQUE Registered
workgroup <00> GROUP Registered


MAC Address = 00-30-xx-xx-xx-xx

IT would seem that Vista computers do not register a username with the WINS server like 2000/XP does.

Does anyone know how to either make Vista report the username that is logged in OR a different method of extrapolating this data?


Dave