Get login name/user name

try to use sleep function to delay your exe

did you try net name?

For NT, the username is available in an Environment variable USERNAME. There are also USERDOMAIN and USERDNSDOMAIN variables. You really don't need to use a VB program to get this information.


To use these from a batch file, just surround the variable name with %, like this:

echo off
echo %USERDOMAIN%\%USERNAME% >> C:\LOGFILE.LOG

Tell me a bit more about what you need to do with the user name.

Gary

By the way, this information exists directly in Novell login scripts. It's been over six years since I administered a Novell server, though. Don't remember what the variables are called anymore.

I know about the login script variables. I should have told you: This is part of a sysinfo program that log's all kind of information - memory size, free disc space, installed software etc. So I think I have to use an .exe file rather than a batch file.

The only thing I can't get at startup is the login name (and for some strange reasons: on some computers I can't get the network adapters MAC address or Ethernet address).

I know about the login script variables. I should have told you: This is part of a sysinfo program that log's all kind of information - memory size, free disc space, installed software etc. So I think I have to use an .exe file rather than a batch file.

The only thing I can't get at startup is the login name (and for some strange reasons: on some computers I can't get the network adapters MAC address or Ethernet address).

I know about the login script variables. I should have told you: This is part of a sysinfo program that log's all kind of information - memory size, free disc space, installed software etc. So I think I have to use an .exe file rather than a batch file.

The only thing I can't get at startup is the login name (and for some strange reasons: on some computers I can't get the network adapters MAC address or Ethernet address).

Have you tried

     Environ("Username")

cv,

You can pass the userid on the command line. From the Novell login script, you can pass the MAC ID as well.

Alternatively, you can add your EXE to HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE\Microsoft\Windows\CurrentVersion\Run\


Gary

You can run a batch file in login script (NOVELL) that execute "whoami > c:\nnnnn.nn"? Read and parse this file. Put a whoami.exe in Login directory.

How about converting your exe to an NT Service?

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Thanks for all comments. I am trying the login script approach and I have had some luck logging on a win9x PC on a Netware server, setting environment variables in the script and reading them in my prog using the Environ statement.

I am not that experienced with login scripts on NT. Note: I am logging win9x PC's onto a win NT/2000 server. How do I set environment variables in the login script? In Netware I use this statments:

Set name="%LOGIN_NAME"
Set MACaddress = "%P_STATION"

Can I do this in NT? I have tried writing something like:

Set name=%USERNAME% or Set name="%USERNAME%"
I have also tried the suggestion from gbaren: ECHO %USERNAME% (with and without the piping to a file), but it seems that the %USERNAME% variable is empty. I am logging in using the standard Client for Microsoft Networks.

Any comments on this matters?

CV,

Open the command prompt and type SET. You'll get a list of all defined environment variables.

You don't need to set another environment variable, either:

1. Read the existing environment variable from your program like this: sUser = Environ("USERNAME")

2. Change your program to accept a parameter and pass the environment variable like this: YOURAPP.EXE %USERNAME%

Gary

By the way, you should reject the proposed answer because it has locked this thread and removed it from the open thread list.

Gary

If I type Set on a dos prompt ON A WIN98 computer (logged on tho a NT 4.0 server) I see just a few variables (Path, sound card etc. not username or MAC address)

If I open a dos prompt ON THE NT SERVER itself I see them. But I am logging the WIN98 computer, not the Server. Is there something missing in the setup in the environment I am testing?

If you want to set all of the Environ parameters do this,

    for a = 1 to 30
        debug.print a & " - " & envrion(a)
    next a

This will give you a list with their corresponding number
The return will contain the parameter name. The format will be like this

    27 - USERNAME=hornet241

Oops, mispelled Environ in the above comment

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