Re: Getting user's domain name

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Disregard my previous response. I just tried
System.Environment.UserDomainName, and it returned nothing (which is the
same as System.Environment.UserName did as well).


-Scott

"M. Posseth" <MPosseth@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote in message
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> you might try
>
> System.Environment.UserDomainName
>
> regards
>
> Michel Posseth
>
> "Scott M. Lyon" wrote:
>
>> I'm having some strange problems with a VB.NET application that I
>> support.
>>
>>
>> The application currently uses SystemInformation.UserName() and
>> SystemInformation.UserDomainName() to determine who is logged in, and
>> what
>> network domain they are logged into.
>>
>>
>> And for our environment here (logged into a domain), it seems to work
>> just
>> fine.
>>
>>
>> However, we have some German users (with a slightly different operating
>> system - basic Windows XP english vs Windows XP german with something
>> called
>> the CAT client on it) that aren't getting the domain correctly, despite
>> being logged into the same domain as we are in the states.
>>
>>
>> When they run the application, it reports their domain as their computer
>> name, and not the domain.
>>
>>
>> I checked their system environment variables (manually, from a CMD
>> window),
>> and even that confirmed that they were on the domain. But it's still not
>> reporting that to SystemInformation.UserDomainName()
>>
>>
>> I also tried the UserName/UserDomainName properties of the Environment
>> object, and got the same (incorrect) results.
>>
>>
>> Has anyone else dealt with anything like this? If so, what do I need to
>> do
>> to get the correct domain?
>>
>>
>> Thanks!
>> -Scott
>>
>>
>>
>>


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