Problem I am working on: I am now in charge of all the Windows machines of a company. All workstations are running Windows 7, I do not have a domain and there is no Windows Server running on the network. Sorry that I can't provide a direct answer. I would ask you this though: Is there any particular reason why you can't invest into a third party product or a domain oriented solution like AD other than not wanting to?
There may be a solution for the current problem, but experience tells me that similar issues will likely crop up sooner or later. Being able to do things like distribute patches for other products (Adobe, Wireshark, etc.) may become extremely important. Having a good baseline in GPO can also be really important if your company is at all concerned with security.–Jul 1 '15 at 15:20.
Pstools Win7 8
Just to be clear, to understand what you are trying to do. I beleave you want to have a list of 20Staffmembers and what IP each one has, you want your script to prompt for the Staff members name and then run a command on the remote users device?If so I have done something similar two different ways:1. Have a separate file that contains the names and IP address, search the file for the input and pull the IP.2. Because you only have 20 or so maybe use IF statements 'IF '%user%' 'staff members name' then do something or IF '%user%' 'James' GOTO James. I could see this as a Batch file or even a Powershell script that OP could use both with or without PSTools.OP:Are you trying to run this remotely on other computers form your workstation or are you trying to define the IP of the machine depending on the user that logs in?Does this have nothing to do with login but rather who the user actively is on the PC with a generic login?How are you going to stop a user that forgets to shutdown another computer and it has the same IP as the new location asking for the user?