If you have a large multi-location network with traveling roaming users, and need the abilty for users to quickly determine where someone last signed on, without messaging, you can implement the following schema:
. Estabish a share where Everyone has Change permissions on a server that Everyone can reach.
. Set permissions on the shared directory:
| Everyone | Add & Read | (RWX) | (RX) |
| CREATOR OWNER | Special Access | (RWX) | (RWXD) |
. Create HereIAm.bat in the shared directory: Note: For Win 95 clients, you must set environment variables with WINSET.EXE - see tip 120
| @echo off | |
| for /f "tokens=1,2 delims=: " %%i in ('time /t') do set hr=%%i%%j | NT clients will set hr, W95 will be null |
| for /f "tokens= 2,3,4 delims=/- " %%i in ('date /t') do set yymmdd=%%k_%%i_%%j | NT clients will set yymmdd, W95 will be null |
| set hereiam=%username%_%computername%_%yymmdd%_%hr%.log | Example: SchulmanJ_JSI01_1997_12_08_930a.log |
| del /q \\ServerName\ShareName\%username%*.log | Delete previous log record. |
| @echo %UserName% last logged on computer %computername% on %yymmdd% at %hr%>\\ServerName\ShareName\%hereiam% | Create the log. Note: @echo through %hereiam% is one line. |
. Call HereIAm.bat in a login script.
. When you want to determine where UserName last logged on, run WhereIs UserName from the shared directory or copy it to the users path in the login script:
@echo off
dir \\ServerName\ShareName\%1*.log
type \\ServerName\ShareName\%1*.log
pause
exit
