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Hi,
I am wanting to know how to get some information from a computer and save it to a text file. I know how to save it to a text file, but I am not sure how to get the information I am after.
Some of the things that I want to know about the computer is
1) User Logged in
2) IP Address
3) Host Name
4) How Long they have been logged in
5) How long windows has been running
and anything else that people can think of.
I want to include as much information as possible in the text file.
Just so that you know what it is for, I am a network admin for a school and would like to be able to find out who logged in when and how long for and any other relevant information that you can think of.
Also if you are going to post a sugestion please include some source code if possible, If you do not know the source please post tue sugestion anyway cause someone else (or maybe even me) might know how to.
Thanks
Hurgh
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Code:
Private Declare Function GetUserName Lib "advapi32.dll" _
Alias "GetUserNameA" (ByVal lpBuffer As String, _
nSize As Long) As Long
Public Function UserName() As String
Dim llReturn As Long
Dim lsUserName As String
Dim lsBuffer As String
lsUserName = ""
lsBuffer = Space$(255)
llReturn = GetUserName(lsBuffer, 255)
If llReturn Then
lsUserName = Left$(lsBuffer, InStr(lsBuffer, Chr(0)) - 1)
End If
UserName = lsUserName
End Function
Usage:
Msgbox UserName
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Option Explicit
Public Const MAX_WSADescription = 256
Public Const MAX_WSASYSStatus = 128
Public Const ERROR_SUCCESS As Long = 0
Public Const WS_VERSION_REQD As Long = &H101
Public Const WS_VERSION_MAJOR As Long = WS_VERSION_REQD \ & H100 And &HFF&
Public Const WS_VERSION_MINOR As Long = WS_VERSION_REQD And &HFF&
Public Const MIN_SOCKETS_REQD As Long = 1
Public Const SOCKET_ERROR As Long = -1
Public Type HOSTENT
hName As Long
hAliases As Long
hAddrType As Integer
hLen As Integer
hAddrList As Long
End Type
Public Type WSADATA
wVersion As Integer
wHighVersion As Integer
szDescription(0 To MAX_WSADescription) As Byte
szSystemStatus(0 To MAX_WSASYSStatus) As Byte
wMaxSockets As Integer
wMaxUDPDG As Integer
dwVendorInfo As Long
End Type
Public Declare Function WSAGetLastError _
Lib "WSOCK32.DLL" () As Long
Public Declare Function WSAStartup Lib _
"WSOCK32.DLL" (ByVal wVersionRequired As Long, _
lpWSADATA As WSADATA) As Long
Public Declare Function WSACleanup Lib _
"WSOCK32.DLL" () As Long
Public Declare Function gethostname Lib _
"WSOCK32.DLL" (ByVal szHost As String, _
ByVal dwHostLen As Long) As Long
Public Declare Function gethostbyname Lib "WSOCK32.DLL" _
(ByVal szHost As String) As Long
Public Declare Sub CopyMemory Lib "kernel32" _
Alias "RtlMoveMemory" (hpvDest As Any, ByVal _
hpvSource As Long, ByVal cbCopy As Long)
Public Function GetIPAddress() As String
Dim sHostName As String * 256
Dim lpHost As Long
Dim HOST As HOSTENT
Dim dwIPAddr As Long
Dim tmpIPAddr() As Byte
Dim i As Integer
Dim sIPAddr As String
If Not SocketsInitialize() Then
GetIPAddress = ""
Exit Function
End If
If gethostname(sHostName, 256) = SOCKET_ERROR Then
GetIPAddress = ""
MsgBox "Windows Sockets error " & Str$(WSAGetLastError()) & _
" has occurred. Unable to successfully get Host Name."
SocketsCleanup
Exit Function
End If
sHostName = Trim$(sHostName)
lpHost = gethostbyname(sHostName)
If lpHost = 0 Then
GetIPAddress = ""
MsgBox "Windows Sockets are not responding. " & _
"Unable to successfully get Host Name."
SocketsCleanup
Exit Function
End If
CopyMemory HOST, lpHost, Len(HOST)
CopyMemory dwIPAddr, HOST.hAddrList, 4
ReDim tmpIPAddr(1 To HOST.hLen)
CopyMemory tmpIPAddr(1), dwIPAddr, HOST.hLen
For i = 1 To HOST.hLen
sIPAddr = sIPAddr & tmpIPAddr(i) & "."
Next
GetIPAddress = Mid$(sIPAddr, 1, Len(sIPAddr) - 1)
SocketsCleanup
End Function
Public Function GetIPHostName() As String
Dim sHostName As String * 256
If Not SocketsInitialize() Then
GetIPHostName = ""
Exit Function
End If
If gethostname(sHostName, 256) = SOCKET_ERROR Then
GetIPHostName = ""
MsgBox "Windows Sockets error " & Str$(WSAGetLastError()) & _
" has occurred. Unable to successfully get Host Name."
SocketsCleanup
Exit Function
End If
GetIPHostName = Left$(sHostName, InStr(sHostName, Chr(0)) - 1)
SocketsCleanup
End Function
Public Function HiByte(ByVal wParam As Integer)
HiByte = wParam \ & H100 And &HFF&
End Function
Public Function LoByte(ByVal wParam As Integer)
LoByte = wParam And &HFF&
End Function
Public Sub SocketsCleanup()
If WSACleanup()<> ERROR_SUCCESS Then
MsgBox "Socket error occurred in Cleanup."
End If
End Sub
Public Function SocketsInitialize() As Boolean
Dim WSAD As WSADATA
Dim sLoByte As String
Dim sHiByte As String
If WSAStartup(WS_VERSION_REQD, WSAD)<> ERROR_SUCCESS Then
MsgBox "The 32-bit Windows Socket is not responding."
SocketsInitialize = False
Exit Function
End If
If WSAD.wMaxSockets < MIN_SOCKETS_REQD Then
MsgBox "This application requires a minimum of " & _
CStr(MIN_SOCKETS_REQD) & " supported sockets."
SocketsInitialize = False
Exit Function
End If
If LoByte(WSAD.wVersion) < WS_VERSION_MAJOR Or _
(LoByte(WSAD.wVersion) = WS_VERSION_MAJOR And _
HiByte(WSAD.wVersion) < WS_VERSION_MINOR) Then
sHiByte = CStr(HiByte(WSAD.wVersion))
sLoByte = CStr(LoByte(WSAD.wVersion))
MsgBox "Sockets version " & sLoByte & "." & sHiByte & _
" is not supported by 32-bit Windows Sockets."
SocketsInitialize = False
Exit Function
End If
'must be OK, so lets do it
SocketsInitialize = True
End Function
Usage:
Text1 = GetIPHostName()
Text2 = GetIPAddress()
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Declare Function GetTickCount Lib "kernel32" () As Long
Private Sub Command1_Click()
Dim lngCount As Long
Dim lngHours As Long
Dim lngMinutes As Long
lngCount = GetTickCount
lngHours = ((lngCount / 1000) / 60) / 60
lngMinutes = ((lngCount / 1000) / 60) Mod 60
MsgBox "System has been running for - " & lngHours & " hour(s) and " & lngMinutes & " minute(s).", vbInformation
End Sub
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I have developed a similar application.
To get the user name, look at the GetUserName Function, see code at http://www.vbapi.com
to get the time user has been logged in, put you function in either the registry, or the startup menu so that it gets started every time a login occurs, then just mark the time, at count it up. For the time windows has been running, use GetTickCount again, see http://www.vbapi.com
For the ip, i don't know.
for the host name, if you mean machine name, use the
GetComputerName, again, see http://www.vbapi.com. You can monitor almost anything, including printer ussuage, programs run, and web url's visited. Even use
Code:
Shell "netstat > myfile.txt" for tcp/ip stats.
You then parse the textfile into your file. Hope this works for you!!
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sorry mathew, posted at same time!!
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same time? his says 10:06 yours says 10:13
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did you have the reply window open for 12 minutes gw-?
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take a look at this post
http://209.207.250.147/showthread.php?threadid=30290
covers ip stuff which i wrote
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yea, i was decifering the info he gave and answering for 12 min.
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Don't worry about it gwdash. ALL Answers are better than NONE. I've done that before, hit Post Reply and 15 minutes has gone by and someone has answered with the same thing. But the good thing is, sometimes you don't know the answer and if you look for it and find it, you learn something new too :).
