Get Win login/ computer name from PB

[Deon Judkins]

I need help again. I need the ability to get an NT login name
(used to login into an NT server) and / or the computer name and
computer description (from network neighborhood, properties,
identification screen).
Has anyone seen any code for this?
Or any ideas how to do this?
Thanks,
Deon


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Deon Judkins

[Lance Edmonds]

Under Win2000 and NT4, you can get the computer name and user name from environment strings (See ENVIRON$).

At the command-line on my 2k and NT systems, SET gives me (amongst lots of other info):

USERDOMAIN=TWOK
USERNAME=Administrator

Where USERDOMAIN is the computername, and USERNAME is... yes, the logged-on User's name.

I'm not sure how to get that programmatically under DOS in NT/2K. My original DOS-level GetComputerName() code does not work on my 2K box.

However, if you have PB/CC, you can ask Windows directly, and of course, you can synchronously SHELL to a PB/CC application from PB/DOS in Win32.
The PB/CC code is pretty straight forward to get the Computer Name and User Name:

#INCLUDE "win32api.INC"
FUNCTION PBMAIN
    DIM szName AS ASCIIZ * %MAX_PATH
    IF GetComputerName(szName, SIZEOF(szName)) THEN
        PRINT szName
    END IF
    IF GetUserName(szName, SIZEOF(szName)) THEN
        PRINT szName
    END IF
    WAITKEY$
END FUNCTION

I hope this helps!

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Lance
PowerBASIC Support
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[Tom Hanlin]

COMPUTERNAME is the computer name. USERDOMAIN is the network domain.

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Tom Hanlin
PowerBASIC Staff

[Lance Edmonds]

Good catch. On both of my networks here USERDOMAIN is the computer name. No domain controllers here.

The COMPUTERNAME environment variable cant be much good, as it scrolls off the screen too fast when dumping all the environment vars with SET!

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Lance
PowerBASIC Support
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