Getting logon ID from registry

[Patrice Bourdages]

I've got a serious problem... I'm trying to find the right way (or tool) to read the registry (WIN95/98, WINNT and WIN2000) at the following location: HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\Network\Logon and the variable would be username

or anything better.

It's easy to extract from WINNT since we can use the Environ$("OS") and also Environ$("USERNAME") to determine which OS were running and what is the Logged on user... How can I dot it in WIN 95/98???

Is there anyone out there with the proper answer...

I need to identify the user from within the application without having them to retype it.

[Toot]

Well, the way I do it is to use "GetUserNameW" in "advapi32.dll". However, we have NT throughout our organisation so see if you can find that library on your win95/98 machines and if so, reply and I'll post all the code.

Toot

[gfk]

Paste this into a module:-

Private Declare Function GetUserName Lib "advapi32.dll" _
            Alias "GetUserNameA" (ByVal lpBuffer As String, _
            nSize As Long) As Long

Public Function UserName() As String
    Dim llReturn As Long
    Dim lsUserName As String
    Dim lsBuffer As String
    
    lsUserName = ""
    lsBuffer = Space$(255)
    llReturn = GetUserName(lsBuffer, 255)
   
    If llReturn Then
       lsUserName = Left$(lsBuffer, InStr(lsBuffer, Chr(0)) - 1)
    End If
    
    UserName = lsUserName
End Function

Then you just do stuff like Label1.caption = UserName

[Toot]

Couldn't have put it better myself!!

[Patrice Bourdages]

Thanks a bunch you guys...

Appreciate it a lot...

Sincerely yours,

Patrice Bourdages
IS Analyst
Quebec, Quebec, Canada