Logged on user

[New Coder]

Hello all,

 

This has probably been asked before but I couldn't find through search.

 

And I'm pretty sure is not possible, but...

 

Is there a way of displaying the windows logged on user?

or

get the name of the compter? as I know I can get the ip address.

 

The reason I ask.

Each user has their own network account but on occasion we need to log on a user as a generic account we have. And I want to check if it's this user accessing the page so different options etc can be displayed.

I could use the computer name to check this as we log all activity. I could then query the log using the comp name to find logged on user.

Unfortunately the log does not hold ip, which would seem obvious but it doesn't 

 

Many Thanks

 

[trq]

Is this within an intranet environment? The data you seek should be within the $_SERVER array.

[New Coder]

Is this within an intranet environment? The data you seek should be within the $_SERVER array.

 

Yes, correct.

I looked into that but could only find the ip which I can't use.

$_SERVER['REMOTE_HOST']

Is there one for computer name?

 

Many Thanks

 

 

[trq]

You will need to print_r() the $_SERVER array and have a look, I0'm at home and am not sure of the key exactly. I have used similar mechanisms at work however.

 

PS: This data is only passed when the clients are using IE also.

[New Coder]

I couldn't seem to get what I wanted so I used Javascript

 

On the index page I added:

<script type="text/javascript">

var WinNetwork = new ActiveXObject("WScript.Network");

var User_Name = WinNetwork.userName;

window.location.href = "mainpage.php" + "?User_Name=" + encodeURIComponent(User_Name);

</script>

 

Then on mainpage I added:

if($_GET['User_Name'] == "GenericAccName")

{

header("Location:genaccmain.php");

exit();

}

 

Bit quick and dirty but until i find a better solution it's working to my needs.

 

Many Thanks