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I have the IP addresses of some computers on my network. Is there any command line tool like PsExec, which can take the IP Address as input and find out the username of the currently logged in user? I can install stuff on my workstation, but not the others. I can also run Metasploit / NMap / any other such program on my workstation.

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For Windows boxes get psLoggedOn. It tells you who is currently signed into the box via console/rdp and who is connected via network shares.

If you don't want to install an app, there is also the commands qwinsta and query session that you can run from the command line like this:

qwinsta /server:name_of_host or query session /server:name_of_host
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  • Oh awesome, theres a PsTool for it. I feel stupid. Anyhow, do these PsTools work on the default Windows XP configuration, without requiring anything to be installed on the remote computer?
    – Neil
    May 26, 2010 at 11:41
  • Correct. Firewall or disabling WMI will get in the way but often the windows firewall even when on contains an exception for WMI.
    – MikeJ
    Jun 11, 2010 at 18:02
  • Above command gives ' Access denied' for me, Any idea?
    – chk.buddi
    Apr 15, 2020 at 18:50
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Try this:

wmic.exe /node:"IP-or-HostName" ComputerSystem Get UserName

Example:

wmic.exe /node:"172.28.1.100" ComputerSystem Get UserName

Output:

UserName
DOMAIN\User

(Yes, /node value must be quoted)

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    Worked for me. I needed to run cmd as domain Administrator or else I got an error "Access is denied".
    – Otiel
    Jan 22, 2015 at 16:01
  • Apparently you have two accounts: account one and account two. You might wish to utilise this Help Center tutorial and ask the Super User staff to merge the accounts.
    – robinCTS
    Aug 3, 2018 at 13:38
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Check out MetaLAN

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  • Can you explian how that software could be helpful in a situation like this one?
    – carloswm85
    Aug 19, 2021 at 11:32
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You can do this with the following commands. This works because any logged in user would run explorer.exe automatically after signing in:

for /f "TOKENS=1,2,*" %%a in ('tasklist /s %PCNAME% /FI "IMAGENAME eq explorer.exe" /FO LIST /V') do if /i "%%a %%b"=="User Name:" (set domain_user=%%c)    
for /f "TOKENS=1,2 DELIMS=\" %%a in ("%domain_user%") do set domain=%%a && set user=%%b

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