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From: cmp8118@sys.uea.ac.uk (Dave Cartwright)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.novell
Subject: Re: Get username on LAN
Message-ID: <1271@sys.uea.ac.uk>
Date: 14 Jun 91 10:13:00 GMT
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maimer@kuhub.cc.ukans.edu writes:

>> I want to get the username currently logged on (and running my program) in
>> my program. I learned that this is not in the standard MS-DOS system calls.

	You're right - DOS doesn't really have concepts unique to network use
like Login names, user ID's, etc, etc.

>Can you access DOS memory variables? 

	Yes.

>                                      The shareware program config.exe
>can be used to set several DOS variables which includes login name,
>dos version, etc.  I believe this can also be done through the system login
>script ("dos set name %login_name" or something like that).

	That's the way I do it. In the LOGIN script I set an environment
variable LOGIN to the user's login name. As well as doing this, I make sure
the user names are <=8 characters. That way I can set up personal network
directories as P:\DATA\USER\%LOGIN%, so I can define everyone's private drive
within the SYSTEM login script rather than having to bugger about with the 
individual users. This came in handy lately when I changed the layout of the
system - I had to change one script, not 87.

	Dave C

P.S. I'm speaking for me, not UEA.
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