How can you get the comp name on windows?

[Flamer]

does anyone know how to get the computer name from the network properties?

[Vlatko]

#include <windows.h>
#include <iostream.h>

char *buffer = new TCHAR[256];
DWORD len = MAX_COMPUTERNAME_LENGTH + 1;
GetComputerName(buffer,&len);
//buffer contains computer name
cout<<buffer<<endl;

[parksie]

Change this:

char *buffer = new TCHAR[256];

to this:

TCHAR *buffer = new TCHAR[MAX_COMPUTERNAME_LENGTH];

[Vlatko]

Ah , thans Parksie. I put the MAX_COMPUTERNAME_LENGTH in the code later so i forgot to change it in the buffer declaration.

[Flamer]

Well the first one worked why the change?
Thanks again..

[parksie]

Okay...normally TCHAR resolves to char. However, if you compile for Unicode it resolves to wchar_t, which is two bytes. So, normally it's fine.

That's the obscure one gone...

The other change was just to match the buffer sizes.