Get NT User Name using VB

[HomerJS]

How can I get a person's NT full name (Homer Simpson), not just their user name (HomerS), using VB?

Any extra help on other NT info I can get would be a bonus.

Thanks...

 

[JohnYingling]

I don't have NT but this works in Win ME

Private Declare Function GetUserName Lib "advapi32.dll" Alias _
    "GetUserNameA" (ByVal lpBuffer As String, _
    nSize As Long) As Long

Private Declare Function WNetVerifyPassword Lib "mpr.dll" Alias _
    "WNetVerifyPasswordA" (ByVal lpszPassword As String, _
    ByRef pfMatch As Long) As Long

Private Function GetWindowsLoginUserID() As String
    Dim rtn As Long
    Dim sBuffer As String
    Dim lSize As Long
    sBuffer = String$(260, Chr$(0))
    lSize = Len(sBuffer)
    rtn = GetUserName(sBuffer, lSize)
    If rtn Then
        sBuffer = Left$(sBuffer, lSize)
        If InStr(sBuffer, Chr$(0)) Then
            sBuffer = _
            Left$(sBuffer, InStr(sBuffer, Chr$(0)) - 1)
        End If
        GetWindowsLoginUserID = sBuffer
    Else
        GetWindowsLoginUserID = ""
    End If
End Function

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[HomerJS]

Thanks for your help. It does work on NT.

But the information I'm really looking for is a person's FULL name (Homer Simpson), not just their user name (HomerS).

 

[JohnYingling]

http://support.microsoft.com/support/kb/articles/Q119/6/70.asp

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[HomerJS]

I haven't really converted C code to VB code. It seems like the code on the support page isn't exactly easy code to convert either.

 

[ronze]

John,

I am looking to do the same thing, and include security priveledges. not to side step the original subject I have a novice question about the code you wrote.

will your functions work on project activation or will I have to call the function "GetWindowsLoginUserID()" somewhere. also I am not understanding why you declared the dll's???

thanks for the help
Christina

 

[Phathi]

Hi,

follow

http://www.mvps.org/vbnet/code/network/netusergetinfo.htm

you'll have to do some clean-up's but it's all there

 

[HomerJS]

That kind of clean-up I can handle. It did take me a little bit to figure out to put the name of our PDC. (reading the comments in the code helps )

Thanks.