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Getting windows username variable
Name: Andrew Squibb Date: May 25, 2004 at 14:53:25 Pacific OS: n/a CPU/Ram: n/a
Comment:
I'm trying to develop something as part of an intranet, but before I get too far I need to get the name of the locally logged on user ( as in the environment variable %username% ) into a web page to be passed to an ASP page.
Being that ASP is Server Side Scripting, I would imagine the best way to achieve this would be to use java or similar on the client, which fetches the username, and the passes this to an ASP page.
Obviously this is only for use on an INTRAnet, in conjunction with a locally stored database.
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