Show username, hostname, and IP address on desktop

[zpetersen]

I would be interested to know if anyone has ever done anything like this. This is something I would like to do in order to aid troubleshooting etc. When someone calls with an issue and I want to remote into their machine all I have to do is ask them what their screen lists for Hostname etc.

I would like to be able to apply this via GPO and I would imagine it would have to be done with some kind of scripting like VBScript. Anyone have any ideas? Or have you done anything similar?

 

[smah]

How about

http://www.sysinternals.com/utilities/bginfo.html

Steve

http://www.advancedheaters.com

 

[zpetersen]

Thanks Steve, I will take a look at that but I am a little reluctant to use an app to do this. I was browsing through the logon script faq faq329-5798 and noticed this little bit of code:

'Configure the PC to show the Windows Version and Service Pack
'as an overlay to the desktop above the System Tray
'=====================================
HKEY_CURRENT_USER = &H80000001
strComputer = WSHNetwork.Computername
Set objReg = GetObject("winmgmts:\\" & strComputer & "\root\default:StdRegProv")
strKeyPath = "Control Panel\Desktop"
objReg.CreateKey HKEY_CURRENT_USER, strKeyPath
ValueName = "PaintDesktopVersion"
dwValue = 1
objReg.SetDWORDValue HKEY_CURRENT_USER, strKeyPath, ValueName, dwValue

Im wondering if there is a way to add to or chang the information that is used above.

 

[Daveyd123]

Did you get that code to work? I use a lot of Marks logon script and added that code to it. I logged off/on a couple of times and it did not work. No error messages, just nothing happened.

 

[zpetersen]

I have yet to try it. I posted this in the VBscript forum and he replied stating that it wouldnt work for what I wanted so I didnt really pursue it any further.