Information about the current logged user !

[Depechie]

Hey guys,

small question. Can I find out if the current logged on use is a local
user or a domain user ?
And please don't use any solution that uses String parsing...

What I need is to get the display name of the current user and the
only way I'm able to do this is using a DLL wrapper :

[DllImport("secu r32.dll", CharSet=CharSet .Auto)]
public static extern int GetUserNameEx (int nameFormat,
StringBuilder userName, ref int userNameSize);

But is there no .Net code available ??

Greets
Glenn

[Willy Denoyette [MVP]]

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Hey guys,

small question. Can I find out if the current logged on use is a local
user or a domain user ?
And please don't use any solution that uses String parsing...

What I need is to get the display name of the current user and the
only way I'm able to do this is using a DLL wrapper :

[DllImport("secu r32.dll", CharSet=CharSet .Auto)]
public static extern int GetUserNameEx (int nameFormat,
StringBuilder userName, ref int userNameSize);

But is there no .Net code available ??

Greets
Glenn

Get the MACHINE (System.Environ ment.MachineNam e) name and DOMAINNAME
(System.Environ ment.UserDomain Name) from the environment, if both are equal,
you are running in a local logon session, else you are running in a domain
session with DOMAINNAME as the logon domain.

Willy.

[Depechie]

On Sep 5, 6:54 pm, "Willy Denoyette [MVP]"
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news:11******** **************@ g4g2000hsf.goog legroups.com...

Hey guys,

small question. Can I find out if the current logged on use is a local
user or a domain user ?
And please don't use any solution that uses String parsing...

What I need is to get the display name of the current user and the
only way I'm able to do this is using a DLL wrapper :

[DllImport("secu r32.dll", CharSet=CharSet .Auto)]
public static extern int GetUserNameEx (int nameFormat,
StringBuilder userName, ref int userNameSize);

But is there no .Net code available ??

Greets
Glenn

Get the MACHINE (System.Environ ment.MachineNam e) name and DOMAINNAME
(System.Environ ment.UserDomain Name) from the environment, if both are equal,
you are running in a local logon session, else you are running in a domain
session with DOMAINNAME as the logon domain.

Willy.

Hey Brian and Willy,

So there is no function that actually tells me if it is a domain user
or not ?
Because I also saw the difference in DomainName and MachineName, but
that is also String checking.

But ok, if that is the only way to go, then I was on the correct
track !
Weird that .Net doesn't provide this information !! Because Windows
needs it when you start up your pc, so somehow it has to know where
the user is !
Strange....

But thanks for the nice answers

[Brian Muth]

>

So there is no function that actually tells me if it is a domain user
or not ?
Because I also saw the difference in DomainName and MachineName, but
that is also String checking.

Gosh, I thought Willy gave a very elegant solution.

>
But ok, if that is the only way to go, then I was on the correct
track !
Weird that .Net doesn't provide this information !! Because Windows
needs it when you start up your pc, so somehow it has to know where
the user is !

I suspect Windows does something very similar to what Willy describes.

Brian