Get User WINNT Logon Name?

Hey ladygail
I've used this code before, but it is VB6 - I have absolutely NO IDEA of the differences between VB6  <> VB.NET so I'll post it here unchanged, hope it helps.

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Option Explicit
'*******************************************************************
'* Project Location = C:\PROJECTX
'* This code is copyright (c), 1999 Andrea VB Programming News Group
'*******************************************************************
'************** API's
' Used to Get the logged on User Name - see GetPCUser Function
Public Declare Function GetUserName Lib "advapi32.dll" Alias "GetUserNameA" (ByVal lpBuffer As String, nSize As Long) As Long

'**********************
'* Public Variables etc
Public FileName As String   '* Hold the loaded project name
'* You can use an array but I found it better in this case to use the collection
Public LineHold1 As New Collection   '* collections to hold parsed information from .vbp file
Public LineHold2 As New Collection
'* Microsoft Word Object - Use Project on the menu then select
'* References then select Microsoft Office 9.0 Objects I have Office 2000
'* for Word 97 use 8.0 objects

Public Function GetPCUser() As String
Dim szBuffer As String, lBuffSize As Long, RetVal As Boolean

'* Create the buffer
szBuffer = Space(255)

lBuffSize = Len(szBuffer)

RetVal = GetUserName(szBuffer, lBuffSize)
If RetVal Then
    '* Strip off the null character on the User name
    GetPCUser = Left$(szBuffer, InStr(szBuffer, vbNullChar) - 1)
   
Else
    '* nope nothing there??
     GetPCUser = "UnknownUser"
End If
End Function

Not really, it need the code to run in asp.net.

oh well sorry

)-;

bc

Don't know if you can access environmental variables in ASP, but you can give this a shot:

Environ("USERNAME")

(also, sometimes the username may be listed under the "USER" or "UNAME" environmental variables)

Environ("USERNAME") writes--ASPNET to the browser.

OK, that's probably because it's looking at the USERNAME on your server (and ASPNET is considered the user here), not the USERNAME of the computer accessing your page.

Hmmm... I don't know how to do this, sorry.  You may want to look into capturing the IP address or hostname, and converting that into a username (assuming each person has their own computer and only use that computer).

Another idea would be to use a cookie - the user enters their username once, and it's stored for future use.

Thank you.
I got it to work.

May I ask how?  Using Environ()?

Initially, the code I posted was shared with me by a co-worker.
However, I was getting errors using his code as posted above.
At this suggestion I looked through ALL of the files in his project to determine which file would result in the script functioning properly. Thus I happened to the file(s) that made the above script work.  Which file, I don't know.
But it works.

My working solutions is listed:

            Dim authUserName As String
            Dim aspUserName As String
            authUserName = User.Identity.Name
            aspUserName = Principal.WindowsIdentity.GetCurrent.Name
            Dim userNameOnly As String = authUserName
            userNameOnly = userNameOnly.Replace("D0960001\", "")

            If Trim(userNameOnly) = Trim(DSPageData2.Tables("ViewUsers").Rows(0).Item("User1")) Then
                If Trim(userNameOnly) = Trim(DSPageData2.Tables("ViewUsers").Rows(0).Item("User2")) Then
                    If Trim(userNameOnly) = Trim(DSPageData2.Tables("ViewUsers").Rows(0).Item("User3")) Then
                        If Trim(userNameOnly) = Trim(DSPageData2.Tables("ViewUsers").Rows(0).Item("User4")) Then
                        Else
                            Response.Redirect("../ErrorMessage/UnauthorizedAccess.aspx")
                        End If
                    End If
            End If
        End If

Thank you.

LadyGail