Fortunately Windows provides a way to do this. Each of these methods for remotely viewing who is logged on to a Windows machine assumes your Windows login has sufficient permission to connect remotely to the machine.
This means you can use them to check on the given machine remotely without impacting any of the users currently logged on to the remote machine.
We also touched on the Remote Desktop Services Manager in our article about how to manage remote desktop connections. Then when prompted, enter the hostname of the remote computer you want to view.
This of course assumes you put psloggedon. As you can see there are at least three ways to get the information you need to remotely view who is logged on in a totally non-intrusive way. Another cool set of similar commands are qwinsta and rwinsta. The only way I have found is to use Remote Desktop to log onto another PC on the target network, and then to use one of the solutions you listed from the remote PC.
This will see if explorer. If a machine is not logged in, no explorer. If someone is logged on, the explorer. Is there a way for non admin user to query the remote machine to check user access to the machine.
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Add a comment. Active Oldest Votes. Improve this answer. Michael Lowman Michael Lowman 3, 19 19 silver badges 36 36 bronze badges. Michael, query is not packaged for non-server Windows.
Where can do download it? Or is there an alternative? Use the eventvwr to remotely view the security log for the remote computer, and scroll through the security logs until you find a login event for the other user: eventvwr [remote computer name without brackets].
Ziplin, I've got access denied. How can I enable access on the server side? Martyn Weber Martyn Weber 61 1 1 silver badge 1 1 bronze badge. Jordan W. Very cool. I didn't specify, but it is a remote user who is blocking me from login. Good tip though, Jordan. Answered by:. Archived Forums. Remote Desktop Services Terminal Services. Sign in to vote. Friday, January 7, PM. Hi, This is by design, and I will update to you if I find any workaround to match your inquiry.
Marked as answer by Alex Cooper a. Of course this is not the same as multiple users concurrently remotely connected to the same system, the latter is what I am seeking a solution for on a Windows R2 server. Next of Windows. Microsoft Announces Windows July 15, If you ever get this in Windows 7 Logon Message: Another user is currently logged to this computer. If you are running 64 bit OS make sure to replace the 64 bit one. Once the patch is done, restart your computer. And test it out.
There is a much easier way to accomplish this task… The fellows over at thegreenbutton. Having an active session is the key here. In your case you might want to try out teamviewer or logmein that way you will keep the same user session without logging out and relaunching new applications Cheers. Thank you. Please give me note. Thanks Lukas. The given link seems to be broken,c can someone re-post it and provide alternate links.
Fortunately, we use Ubuntu Linux for pretty much everything. Currently I need it because of limited computer resources in my workplace.
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