website to track logged-in user to server 1

[JacobTechy]

We have about 4 techies that access an email server remotely. The problem we are seeing is that we do not know who is logged in at the time and thus we tend to log people out while they are doing something in the email server.
My solution to this is to create a webpage in our intranet that has the field: "User currently logged in" and there would be a drop down box for user selection or user can type their name in the box and also a date field which would get updated. Can someone recommend a language to do this in. I am thinking asp combined with our sql db server. Any ideas.

Thanks

 

[LTeeple]

I have something similar in place, except I use PHP.

When the user logs in using a standard form, their credentials are authenticated against LDAP. I store the users' name in a session variable, so on every page they're on, it shows: "Logged on as username". No need to have a text box or select list. (I'm sure you could accomplish the same in ASP).

Using that session varialbe, you could then write to a database if need be.


Cheers!
Laura

 

[JacobTechy]

Any possiblty you can pass me this information or code so I can do the same. the emails server is on windows xp

 

[LTeeple]

Unfortunately, I cannot do so. Google the term session variables PHP (or ASP) and you should be able to find some snippets.


Cheers!
Laura

 

[JacobTechy]

We log into windows xp remote desktop domain window not an actual webpage