Re: Identifying the user

From: Jeff Dillon (jeff_at_removeemergencyreporting.com)
Date: 11/06/04

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    Without some authentication mechanism, you can't capture the username. Basic
    Authentication works over the Internet, or Windows Auth on an intranet.

    Jeff

    "bwmbagus" <bwmbagus@discussions.microsoft.com> wrote in message
    news:7B57D478-F037-4321-81A7-7B8DA35D1B31@microsoft.com...
    > I am getting a strange result from some standard code.
    > Anyone got any ideas??
    >
    > The puzzle
    > I have a web service calling System.Environment.UserName etc to return the
    > user name from the server. However, I get back NETWORK SERVICE or a null
    > string, rather then the user logged on to the client machine.
    > I have seperate server and client PC's, running XP
    > SP2 and Server 2003.
    > I have tried various server configs, - anonymous and not, with clear text,
    > with digest etc, and various clients. Always get the same result.
    >

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