How to Get Account name of Machine I am logged In

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Hi,

How can I get the account information I am logged in. Like if I am logged in with stalin_king into one machine, then how can I get that thorugh ASP.Net.

I am using WindowsIdentity.GetCurrent().Name.ToString().Trim();, but this is giving the server account name where as I want the user name of the machine where I open this site.

Any ideas.

Posted 16-Feb-11 22:44pm

Sreenath Gv

Updated 16-Feb-11 22:46pm

Sandeep Mewara

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Sandeep Mewara 17-Feb-11 4:47am

If it's your account name, be it server or any other machine, names are same as it's picked from Active directory.

Looks like you are looking for something else. Edit and rephase your question.

Sreenath Gv 17-Feb-11 4:48am

I want the account name of the machine where I have opened my site.

OriginalGriff 17-Feb-11 4:51am

Do you mean the client machine user account name?
Or the Server account name?

Sreenath Gv 17-Feb-11 4:49am

I hope you got it nw..!

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Dylan Morley · Answer 1 · 2011-02-16T22:51:00

It depends what mode you have your Asp.Net authentication set to. Here's an article which briefly describes the options

http://www.4guysfromrolla.com/articles/031204-1.aspx[^]

Now, I'm assuming you want to work with 'Windows Authentication' since you want to get the account name of the user connecting to the site. In which case, you'll need to make sure this mode is set in your web.config and that you have your IIS site set to use 'Integrated Authentication'

You could then use something like this to get the Windows Principal object

// Obtain the authenticated user's Identity
WindowsPrincipal winPrincipal = (WindowsPrincipal)HttpContext.Current.User;

Just accessing the HttpContext.Current.User object should give you what you want though

Further reading

http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/ff647076.aspx[^]

jim lahey · Answer 2 · 2011-02-16T22:52:00

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You can get the name of the machine through Environment.MachineName

Posted 16-Feb-11 22:52pm

jim lahey

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soni uma 17-Feb-11 4:53am

Short and sweet...

Manas Bhardwaj 17-Feb-11 5:30am

No it is not. It will always give you the Server name i.e. Environment where your code is being executed.

Manas Bhardwaj 17-Feb-11 5:30am

OP wants the client m/c name and not the server name.

Manas Bhardwaj · Answer 3 · 2011-02-16T22:54:00

Well, I am not sure if you application is for Internet or Intranet.
If it is intended for internet, I am afraid that would not be possible. Or I should say ASP.Net does not have a way to do it, you can always write some kind of ActiveX control to do this.

Now comes the intranet thingie. You can try this one:

Dim host As System.Net.IPHostEntry
host = System.Net.Dns.GetHostByAddress(Request.ServerVariables.Item("REMOTE_HOST"))
string strComputerName = host.HostName

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