finding an ip address

blastman

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hey guys,

I help support about 100 office users and instead of running around the fairly large office i'm thinking of installing vnc on everyones machines.

I can write a script that will do this for me but there is a snag...

Most users aren't up to hovering the mouse over the VNC icon in the system tray to find there ip.

Is there another way that i could quickly find out what it is?

I have thought of using Acitve Directory and then using the computer names, but due the naming convention thats a bit of a ball ache.

any ideas??
 
are you using 2003 server and xp, in an active directory environment? if so, use rdp that is already built into the operating system. if you already have all the computers as objects within the active directory then you should be able to see who is logged in where and remote desktop that way?

alternatively, go through the pain of standardising your pc naming convention once, change the my computer icon to be their pc name, set all machines to register their connection in dns, and then you can just rdp/vnc to the workstation name.
 
Cheers for the reply,

atomiser said:
are you using 2003 server and xp, in an active directory environment?
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Yes.

if so, use rdp that is already built into the operating system. if you already have all the computers as objects within the active directory then you should be able to see who is logged in where and remote desktop that way?
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This is indeed an option but i'd like to be able to have the user see what i do, that way if it's an easy fix, they can do it them self's next time. (there's no chnace of them doing anything major as it's locked down quite well.)

alternatively, go through the pain of standardising your pc naming convention once, change the my computer icon to be their pc name, set all machines to register their connection in dns, and then you can just rdp/vnc to the workstation name.
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Sadly I have only been in the job a few days and suggesting anything this drastic would probably be a mistake.

The problem i have is getting the user name by serching on AD only displays the user, not the computer they are on.


unless you know of a way to do this?
 
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