Finding the full human name of a system user

[Jason Reichenbach]

I've GOT to be missing something painfully obvious, here...

I need to programmatically get the full human name of the current user on a
local system, the same system upon which the app is running.

Using C#.NET MSDEV2003. OS will be Win2K or WinXP.

I've found numerous ways to get the user name, but have yet to find the way
to get the human name.

Anybody have any wisdom here?

Many thanks in advance,
Jason

[Lloyd Dupont]

I think System.Environment.UserName
is what you're after...

"Jason Reichenbach" <Ja**************@discussions.microsoft.com> wrote in
message news:0D**********************************@microsof t.com...

I've GOT to be missing something painfully obvious, here...

I need to programmatically get the full human name of the current user on
a
local system, the same system upon which the app is running.

Using C#.NET MSDEV2003. OS will be Win2K or WinXP.

I've found numerous ways to get the user name, but have yet to find the
way
to get the human name.

Anybody have any wisdom here?

Many thanks in advance,
Jason

[Ray Cassick \(Home\)]

You can't get anything that is not stored in the system. Unless the users
full name is entered in somewhere as part of being a user.

If you are connected to a network via something like Active Directory then
you can query the catalog for the users name as it is entered in there.

"Jason Reichenbach" <Ja**************@discussions.microsoft.com> wrote in
message news:0D**********************************@microsof t.com...

I've GOT to be missing something painfully obvious, here...

I need to programmatically get the full human name of the current user on
a
local system, the same system upon which the app is running.

Using C#.NET MSDEV2003. OS will be Win2K or WinXP.

I've found numerous ways to get the user name, but have yet to find the
way
to get the human name.

Anybody have any wisdom here?

Many thanks in advance,
Jason

[Jason Reichenbach]

I thought so, too, but sadly that gives me the user name, as does
SystemInformation.UserName...

"Lloyd Dupont" wrote:

I think System.Environment.UserName
is what you're after...

"Jason Reichenbach" <Ja**************@discussions.microsoft.com> wrote in
message news:0D**********************************@microsof t.com...

I've GOT to be missing something painfully obvious, here...

I need to programmatically get the full human name of the current user on
a
local system, the same system upon which the app is running.

Using C#.NET MSDEV2003. OS will be Win2K or WinXP.

I've found numerous ways to get the user name, but have yet to find the
way
to get the human name.

Anybody have any wisdom here?

Many thanks in advance,
Jason

[Jason Reichenbach]

Well, the information is available, I'm just missing the mechanism for
getting it. What I'm looking for shows up in the Local Users and Groups
section of the Computer Management app that is part of the Administrative
Tools in Control Panel (this is on Win2K). I understand that if the user
chooses to leave this blank when the user account is created then there would
be nothing to retrieve from here, but my test system has data in this field.

Thanks for the input... the data is definitely available (the Computer
Management app can find it... :) ), so it sure seems that other apps should
be able to do so... I'll keep digging.

"Ray Cassick (Home)" wrote:

You can't get anything that is not stored in the system. Unless the users
full name is entered in somewhere as part of being a user.

If you are connected to a network via something like Active Directory then
you can query the catalog for the users name as it is entered in there.

"Jason Reichenbach" <Ja**************@discussions.microsoft.com> wrote in
message news:0D**********************************@microsof t.com...

I've GOT to be missing something painfully obvious, here...

I need to programmatically get the full human name of the current user on
a
local system, the same system upon which the app is running.

Using C#.NET MSDEV2003. OS will be Win2K or WinXP.

I've found numerous ways to get the user name, but have yet to find the
way
to get the human name.

Anybody have any wisdom here?

Many thanks in advance,
Jason

[Ray Cassick \(Home\)]

Just located this via Google:

Dim DomainUser As String =
System.Security.Principal.WindowsIdentity.GetCurre nt.Name.Replace("\", "/")
Dim ADEntry As New System.DirectoryServices.DirectoryEntry("WinNT://" &
DomainUser)
Dim FullName As String = ADEntry.Properties("FullName").Value
Have not tried it yet... might work, might not.

"Jason Reichenbach" <Ja**************@discussions.microsoft.com> wrote in
message news:97**********************************@microsof t.com...

Well, the information is available, I'm just missing the mechanism for
getting it. What I'm looking for shows up in the Local Users and Groups
section of the Computer Management app that is part of the Administrative
Tools in Control Panel (this is on Win2K). I understand that if the user
chooses to leave this blank when the user account is created then there
would
be nothing to retrieve from here, but my test system has data in this
field.

Thanks for the input... the data is definitely available (the Computer
Management app can find it... :) ), so it sure seems that other apps
should
be able to do so... I'll keep digging.

"Ray Cassick (Home)" wrote:

You can't get anything that is not stored in the system. Unless the users
full name is entered in somewhere as part of being a user.

If you are connected to a network via something like Active Directory
then
you can query the catalog for the users name as it is entered in there.

"Jason Reichenbach" <Ja**************@discussions.microsoft.com> wrote in
message news:0D**********************************@microsof t.com...

> I've GOT to be missing something painfully obvious, here...
>
> I need to programmatically get the full human name of the current user
> on
> a
> local system, the same system upon which the app is running.
>
> Using C#.NET MSDEV2003. OS will be Win2K or WinXP.
>
> I've found numerous ways to get the user name, but have yet to find the
> way
> to get the human name.
>
> Anybody have any wisdom here?
>
> Many thanks in advance,
> Jason

[Jason Reichenbach]

Thanks, Ray... I saw that one too, and didn't try it because I had hopes of a
simpler (not going to a network) solution...

This does work, though, so I'll use it for now...

I appreciate the help.

Jason

"Ray Cassick (Home)" wrote:

Just located this via Google:

Dim DomainUser As String =
System.Security.Principal.WindowsIdentity.GetCurre nt.Name.Replace("\", "/")
Dim ADEntry As New System.DirectoryServices.DirectoryEntry("WinNT://" &
DomainUser)
Dim FullName As String = ADEntry.Properties("FullName").Value
Have not tried it yet... might work, might not.

"Jason Reichenbach" <Ja**************@discussions.microsoft.com> wrote in
message news:97**********************************@microsof t.com...

Well, the information is available, I'm just missing the mechanism for
getting it. What I'm looking for shows up in the Local Users and Groups
section of the Computer Management app that is part of the Administrative
Tools in Control Panel (this is on Win2K). I understand that if the user
chooses to leave this blank when the user account is created then there
would
be nothing to retrieve from here, but my test system has data in this
field.

Thanks for the input... the data is definitely available (the Computer
Management app can find it... :) ), so it sure seems that other apps
should
be able to do so... I'll keep digging.

"Ray Cassick (Home)" wrote:

You can't get anything that is not stored in the system. Unless the users
full name is entered in somewhere as part of being a user.

If you are connected to a network via something like Active Directory
then
you can query the catalog for the users name as it is entered in there.

"Jason Reichenbach" <Ja**************@discussions.microsoft.com> wrote in
message news:0D**********************************@microsof t.com...
> I've GOT to be missing something painfully obvious, here...
>
> I need to programmatically get the full human name of the current user
> on
> a
> local system, the same system upon which the app is running.
>
> Using C#.NET MSDEV2003. OS will be Win2K or WinXP.
>
> I've found numerous ways to get the user name, but have yet to find the
> way
> to get the human name.
>
> Anybody have any wisdom here?
>
> Many thanks in advance,
> Jason

[Ray Cassick \(Home\)]

You don't necessarily need a network to do this.

The WinNT provider should be able to be used to reach local account data on
a standalone system.

I *think*.
"Jason Reichenbach" <Ja**************@discussions.microsoft.com> wrote in
message news:2D**********************************@microsof t.com...

Thanks, Ray... I saw that one too, and didn't try it because I had hopes
of a
simpler (not going to a network) solution...

This does work, though, so I'll use it for now...

I appreciate the help.

Jason

"Ray Cassick (Home)" wrote:

Just located this via Google:

Dim DomainUser As String =
System.Security.Principal.WindowsIdentity.GetCurre nt.Name.Replace("\",
"/")
Dim ADEntry As New System.DirectoryServices.DirectoryEntry("WinNT://" &
DomainUser)
Dim FullName As String = ADEntry.Properties("FullName").Value
Have not tried it yet... might work, might not.

"Jason Reichenbach" <Ja**************@discussions.microsoft.com> wrote in
message news:97**********************************@microsof t.com...

> Well, the information is available, I'm just missing the mechanism for
> getting it. What I'm looking for shows up in the Local Users and Groups
> section of the Computer Management app that is part of the
> Administrative
> Tools in Control Panel (this is on Win2K). I understand that if the
> user
> chooses to leave this blank when the user account is created then there
> would
> be nothing to retrieve from here, but my test system has data in this
> field.
>
> Thanks for the input... the data is definitely available (the Computer
> Management app can find it... :) ), so it sure seems that other apps
> should
> be able to do so... I'll keep digging.
>
>
>
> "Ray Cassick (Home)" wrote:
>
>> You can't get anything that is not stored in the system. Unless the
>> users
>> full name is entered in somewhere as part of being a user.
>>
>> If you are connected to a network via something like Active Directory
>> then
>> you can query the catalog for the users name as it is entered in
>> there.
>>
>> "Jason Reichenbach" <Ja**************@discussions.microsoft.com> wrote
>> in
>> message news:0D**********************************@microsof t.com...
>> > I've GOT to be missing something painfully obvious, here...
>> >
>> > I need to programmatically get the full human name of the current
>> > user
>> > on
>> > a
>> > local system, the same system upon which the app is running.
>> >
>> > Using C#.NET MSDEV2003. OS will be Win2K or WinXP.
>> >
>> > I've found numerous ways to get the user name, but have yet to find
>> > the
>> > way
>> > to get the human name.
>> >
>> > Anybody have any wisdom here?
>> >
>> > Many thanks in advance,
>> > Jason
>>
>>
>>