From: s2172184 AT cse DOT unsw DOT edu DOT au ("Ben Constable") Subject: Re: How to get the user name 31 Jan 1997 14:01:00 -0800 Approved: cygnus DOT gnu-win32 AT cygnus DOT com Distribution: cygnus Message-ID: <970131160401.1056.cygnus.gnu-win32@cse.unsw.edu.au> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Original-To: , X-MSMail-Priority: Normal X-Priority: 3 X-Mailer: Microsoft Internet Mail 4.70.1155 Original-Sender: owner-gnu-win32 AT cygnus DOT com > How can I get the login-name under Win95 and Win-NT 4.0? I assume you don't have the win32 SDK. If you did, you would probably go to the index, and type "GetUserName" and find that you get this entry: GetUserName QuickInfo Overview Group The GetUserName function retrieves the user name of the current thread. This is the name of the user currently logged onto the system. BOOL GetUserName( LPTSTR lpBuffer, // address of name buffer LPDWORD nSize // address of size of name buffer ); Parameters lpBuffer Points to the buffer to receive the null-terminated string containing the user's logon name. If this buffer is not large enough to contain the entire user name, the function fails. nSize Pointer to a DWORD that, on input, specifies the maximum size, in characters, of the buffer specified by the lpBuffer parameter. If this buffer is not large enough to contain the entire user name, the function fails. If the function succeeds, it will place the number of characters copied to the buffer into the DWORD that nSize points to. Return Value If the function succeeds, the return value is TRUE, and the variable pointed to by nSize contains the number of characters copied to the buffer specified by lpBuffer, including the terminating null character. If the function fails, the return value is FALSE. To get extended error information, call GetLastError. Remarks If the current thread is impersonating another client, the GetUserName function returns the user name of the client that the thread is impersonating. See Also LookupAccountName Ben Constable s2172184 AT cse DOT unsw DOT edu DOT au - For help on using this list, send a message to "gnu-win32-request AT cygnus DOT com" with one line of text: "help".