Getting the USER ID of the user

[joebickley]

Hi

Im trying to capture the name of the USER logon on to his/her machine when hiting a page. I think i need to use the <%= Request.ServerVariables(&quot;XXXXXX&quot%> command but i dont know what to request.

I have tried these:
AUTH_USER - returns nothing
remote_addr - returns IP address

Any ideas?

Thanks

Joe

 

[joebickley]

Just to update i found a page that list all the poible variables that can be requested uing the servervariables method. can be found here:

http://www.microsoft.com/windows2000/en/server/iis/htm/asp/vbob5vsj.htm

However this still didnt work it just comes up blank

has anyone else got this problem?

Thanks

 

[bdmoore]

Joe,

Try Request.ServerVariables(&quot;REMOTE_USER&quot - I had a few problems when trying to pick up user NT accounts and this was the only one that worked!

Regards,

Ben

 

[Sveno]

Gidday,

I have been looking at this exact same thing and I found that even if you have logged into the server on a previous page, the page that has LOGON_USER or such must have Basic or NT challenge response security.

I too got no result for REMOTE_USER until I set this flag on my test page.

Hope this helps.

Cheers

Mark

 

[tvbruwae]

The remote_user, logon_user, etc. never work when anonymous access is enabled. You have to enable NT Challenge/response authentication to use these server variables. However, as long as the users that visit your page are authenticated users on the domain, they won't get any logon popups (unless you specify additional restrictions on the asp pages by using NTFS permissions). So this should only be used on an intranet (but I guess this is what you're doing).