How can I get the current logged in user on the computer? We're all Active
Directory here -- Netbios is not turned on however. I need to get the name
the user logged in as, when he started up his machine...
TY
jason shohet
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Jason Shohet wrote: How can I get the current logged in user on the computer? We're all
Active Directory here -- Netbios is not turned on however. I need
to get the name the user logged in as, when he started up his
machine...
Jason,
If your IIS Application is using Windows Authentication and you have
Identity Impersonate enabled in web.config, then you can get the current
user's credential using: WindowsIdentity .GetCurrent().N ame
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Thanks,
Carl Prothman
Microsoft ASP.NET MVP
Hire top-notch developers at http://www.able-consulting.com
hi Carl,
we're not using any authentication on the site -- its just a regular asp.net
intranet site that shows a list of employees. We'd like to allow employees
to edit a few records in a database. But first we have to know who they are
logged in as -- on the box. But I don't want to have the user have to log
in to the site... If i turn on windows authentication in iis (windows 2003
server), will that cause an ugly challenge-response window?
TY
"Carl Prothman [MVP]" <ca****@spamcop .net> wrote in message
news:u0******** ******@TK2MSFTN GP14.phx.gbl... Jason Shohet wrote: How can I get the current logged in user on the computer? We're all
Active Directory here -- Netbios is not turned on however. I need
to get the name the user logged in as, when he started up his
machine...
Jason,
If your IIS Application is using Windows Authentication and you have
Identity Impersonate enabled in web.config, then you can get the current
user's credential using: WindowsIdentity .GetCurrent().N ame
--
Thanks,
Carl Prothman
Microsoft ASP.NET MVP
Hire top-notch developers at
http://www.able-consulting.com
Not if using IE. (Firefox will still prompt). We use it all the time
(Windows 2000 Server IIS 5)
uncheck anonymous, and check integrated
add <authenticati on mode="Windows" /> to web.config also
you do NOT need to turn on Identity Impersonate in web.config to get
username!
Dim sCurrentuser As String = HttpContext.Cur rent.User.Ident ity.Name will do
it from a class
or simply Page.User.Ident ity.Name from a web form.
Greg
"Jason Shohet" <__******@yahoo .com> wrote in message
news:OQ******** *****@TK2MSFTNG P11.phx.gbl... hi Carl,
we're not using any authentication on the site -- its just a regular
asp.net intranet site that shows a list of employees. We'd like to allow
employees to edit a few records in a database. But first we have to know
who they are logged in as -- on the box. But I don't want to have the
user have to log in to the site... If i turn on windows authentication in
iis (windows 2003 server), will that cause an ugly challenge-response
window?
TY
"Carl Prothman [MVP]" <ca****@spamcop .net> wrote in message
news:u0******** ******@TK2MSFTN GP14.phx.gbl... Jason Shohet wrote: How can I get the current logged in user on the computer? We're all
Active Directory here -- Netbios is not turned on however. I need
to get the name the user logged in as, when he started up his
machine...
Jason,
If your IIS Application is using Windows Authentication and you have
Identity Impersonate enabled in web.config, then you can get the current
user's credential using: WindowsIdentity .GetCurrent().N ame
--
Thanks,
Carl Prothman
Microsoft ASP.NET MVP
Hire top-notch developers at
http://www.able-consulting.com
Greg,
Half way there but still 1 problem. I turned on integrated authentication,
& put the code in you specified. It works fine on the server itself, and I
can get the logged in user. But when I browsed from my machine to the
server, it prompted me for username & password. I'm on an XP client, but
of course logged in against Active Directory a few days ago (i generally
don't turn my machine off, I just lock it ea. night :) ). Not sure why its
prompting me...
OK, fraid of that.
Not sure about your network topography (also I'm not a network guru).
We connect to our intranet using http://intranet This "intranet" alias is
on our local dns server. If I try and type just the ip address it will
prompt for me too.
Couple things you can do:
Add the ip address to each browser's list of local address (in the security
tab).
Or add the ip addresss to your local hosts file.
C:\WINDOWS\syst em32\drivers\et c\hosts (no extension)
Obviously neither is very convenient.
The best is to have your "intranet" published on a DNS server.
But like I said, I am not a network guy and maybe talking out my *ss. :^)
Greg
"Jason Shohet" <__******@yahoo .com> wrote in message
news:%2******** ********@TK2MSF TNGP09.phx.gbl. .. Greg,
Half way there but still 1 problem. I turned on integrated
authentication, & put the code in you specified. It works fine on the
server itself, and I can get the logged in user. But when I browsed from
my machine to the server, it prompted me for username & password. I'm on
an XP client, but of course logged in against Active Directory a few days
ago (i generally don't turn my machine off, I just lock it ea. night
:) ). Not sure why its prompting me...
wait, my computer is the only one w/ the prob, its working on others... i'll
reboot & see if that works.
Its been a few weeks...
Greg, VERY bizarre.
When I log on as Joe, Cathy or Rufus on my machine, they have no
problem getting authenticated & don't get interrogated. When I log on as
myself, I get the Abu Graib interrogation.. ... I don't get it. Is
something wrong with me :)
Have the network guys somehow cursed me so that I don't work with windows
integrated logon?
TY
Sounds like you might have NTFS permisions restrictions set on the virtual
directory on the web site. Maybe you're not part of a group? Having said
that, if you don't have identity impersonate turned on in web.config (which
you shouldn't) this shouldn't be happening. Without it on, it will just
look like the ASPNET user is accessing the folder to NTFS.
If you want to restrict the site to specific users\groups in AD, use code
like this in web.config:
<authorizatio n>
<allow roles="SRVWEB2\ Permissions - HR" />
<allow users="OURDOMAI N\burnsg" />
<deny users="*" />
</authorization>
"Jason Shohet" <__******@yahoo .com> wrote in message
news:%2******** ********@TK2MSF TNGP09.phx.gbl. .. Greg, VERY bizarre.
When I log on as Joe, Cathy or Rufus on my machine, they have no
problem getting authenticated & don't get interrogated. When I log on as
myself, I get the Abu Graib interrogation.. ... I don't get it. Is
something wrong with me :)
Have the network guys somehow cursed me so that I don't work with windows
integrated logon?
TY
We're not restricting anything in the web.config at all !
The authentication works on 2/3 of the people I've tested, 1/3 it doesn't
work....
I'm going around to peoples' pc's to see if I can detect a pattern. We're
all on active directory however, the same domain.
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