Monitor Windows Terminal Sessions from Linux/Mac

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Published on 2010-02-12T00:15:37Z Indexed on 2010/04/17 22:03 UTC
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I'm writing some scripts to make remote connections to a Windows 2003 server a bit more user-friendly, and in doing this I want to see who's logged in already. In Windows, I could use qwinsta.exe to do this, even for remote servers. So it is exposed somehow, but I couldn't find a matching command line tool for Unix.

Lacking such a tool, I could install an ssh server on the machine and call it remotely, parsing the output or write a small service of my own that would expose this via http, if I don't want full-blown ssh access.

Do I have to do this, or is there already a tool for querying terminal services remotely?

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