# Determining client location

**URL:** <https://community.thinlinc.com/t/determining-client-location/268>\
**Category:** Community Support\
**Created:** [5 November 2021 05:40 UTC](https://community.thinlinc.com/t/determining-client-location/268 "2021-11-05T05:40:35Z")\
**Posts on this page:** 3\
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**Author:** ![michaelo](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/ccd318/32.png) [@michaelo](https://community.thinlinc.com/u/michaelo)\
**Post date:** [5 November 2021 05:40 UTC](https://community.thinlinc.com/t/determining-client-location/268/1 "2021-11-05T05:40:35Z")

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Is it possible to determine the client’s location (e.g., ip address) from within a thinlinc session? I’ve looked all around, but can’t see any way to do it. The only things that have that info appear to be inaccessible to the user in the session.

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**Author:** ![samuel](https://dub1.discourse-cdn.com/flex005/user_avatar/community.thinlinc.com/samuel/32/335_2.png) [@samuel](https://community.thinlinc.com/u/samuel)\
**Post date:** [5 November 2021 12:11 UTC](https://community.thinlinc.com/t/determining-client-location/268/2 "2021-11-05T12:11:46Z")

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If you are connecting using any of the native clients you can run this command in a terminal within the session:

```auto
$ tl-session-param /client_ip

```

It will print the client IP. Note that this won’t work if you’re connected using ThinLinc Web Access.

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**Author:** ![michaelo](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/ccd318/32.png) [@michaelo](https://community.thinlinc.com/u/michaelo)\
**Post date:** [23 November 2021 03:52 UTC](https://community.thinlinc.com/t/determining-client-location/268/3 "2021-11-23T03:52:10Z")

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> [@samuel](#):
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> `tl-session-param /client_ip`

Yes indeed, it works! Thanks!