Netbios username query

Hi,

I have a system which queries the netbios username of a remote PC.
Unfortunately, during testing of a new XP build, the username is no longer
being displayed with a 'nbtstat -n'.

The Windows firewall is disabled. The 'Messenger' service has been
restarted. Netbios over TCP is enabled. The PC belongs to a workgroup (user
authentication is against eDirectory). This has me completely stumped!

=?Utf-8?B?TmVpbCBN?= <Neil M@discussions.microsoft.com> wrote in
news:8BD7A50E-0C58-4AAF-8F48-F07AD854B894@microsoft.com:

> Hi,
>
> I have a system which queries the netbios username of a remote PC.
> Unfortunately, during testing of a new XP build, the username is
> no longer being displayed with a 'nbtstat -n'.
>
> The Windows firewall is disabled. The 'Messenger' service has been
> restarted. Netbios over TCP is enabled. The PC belongs to a
> workgroup (user authentication is against eDirectory). This has me
> completely stumped!
>

The messenger service must be running on all systems you are querying,
not just your own.

Perhaps a better way of querying the user name is to use the
"psloggedon" utility available as part of the PsTools package at:

<http://technet.microsoft.com/en-us/sysinternals/bb896649.aspx>

HTH,
John