Domain User name - Output to screen

[Scorez2000]

Hi All,

On our intranet, I would like to have the user's name appear at the top right. We use a domain and the only people accessing the site should be people logged onto the domain.

Classic ASP or ASP.NET will do. I just need to know how to pull the user's name or username from Active Directory based on who they are logged on as.

Thanks in advance.

 

[ca8msm]

Check out ther Request.ServerVariables collection


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[Scorez2000]

I tried the Request.ServerVariables("LOGON_USER") in both asp and an aspx file and neither output anything.

 

[vbkris]

>>We use a domain and the only people accessing the site should be people logged onto the domain.


meaning u use windows authentication??? there are methods in windows authentication itself to find out the current user's id...

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[Scorez2000]

there are methods in windows authentication itself to find out the current user's id"

Yes, and I'm asking how that's done.

 

[sirjon]

Hi,

Make sure you are using windows authentication.

<authentication mode="Windows" />
<identity impersonate = "true" />

Then I use this function.

Public Function ExtractUserName(ByVal path As String) As String
Dim userPath() As String = path.Split(New Char() {"\\"})
Return userPath(userPath.Length - 1)
End Function

I then call this from my header

Dim userx As New JBXEL.DataManager
Dim ux As String = userx.ExtractUserName(HttpContext.Current.User.Identity.Name)
LblUserName.Text = ux

or more simply if you like, in the header code use:-

Dim str1 As String = HttpContext.Current.User.Identity.Name
Dim repStr As String = str1.Replace("YourServername\", "")
LblUserName.Text = repStr

HTH

J

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[vbkris]

>>HttpContext.Current.User.Identity.Name

thats the one...

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