We have a user that is sending rather large print jobs to a windows printer, we need to track them down and advise a sensible approach to printing. The only thing that shows up in the windows print manager is the IP address of the source.

Is this achievable?

Yes, contact your network administrator and ask them to help you. The person responsible for the network should know the physical location of all network devices, including computers.

On a windows box you can run this command to see who is logged into the offending box if it is a windows box:

nbtstat -A xxx.xxx.xxx.xxx

Like Neo said too, your Net Admins are probably the proper channel to get this info.

when all users are logged in use the 'who' command

# who
user1       pts/1        May 22 13:31    (x.x.x.x)

The poster seems to want to track down a person, perhaps wants a phone number to call them. Hence, the person to contact is the network administrator and give them the network information the network admin requires to find the physical location of the person.

IP addresses and userids generally do not map to people and phone number without a configuration management process managed by your network admins.

If you work for a company, contact the network administrator for assistance.

Optimus_P has come up with all I need.

% who

is more than sufficent. Most of the Unix users are in the building I am in. I understand that the Admin person should normally be able to help here but our company has 12 domains spaning the entire planet. Big job to find the offending culprit, yeah.

Giving me a PC serial nuber or user ID is more than enough, because we use Exceed and Citrix as our interface to Solaris.

So I can use NET SEND from a DOS prompt, or send a subtle email using the login ID as the email tracer.

Any way thanks for all of you help.

luil pts/78 May 22 18:59 (10.220.12.141:0.0)
chcel pts/128 May 21 22:24 (unix:14.0)
chcel pts/139 May 20 21:07 (unix:31.0)
fosteb1 pts/135 May 18 23:01 (10.220.11.111:0.0)

i understand the function of the net admin. but all usernames should map to a properly filled out gecos field. then you can look the user up in your company address book or send them an email.

a decent unix admin should be able to track down who is connecting to there machine.