Web programming - easy way to grab Windows login name?

[DougK62]

The question is simple. Is there an easy way (hopefully using ASP, PHP, or something simpler) to grab a user's Windows login name when they go to a web page?

My situation is that I'm making an intranet page, and I'd like it to customize web links based on who is viewing it without having the user do some sort of authentication.

 

[NikPreviousAcct]

I dunno, maybe you should post in the correct forum and find out.

 

[cjgallen]

hax!

 

[HardcoreRobot]

asp it is, its just something like:

<% stringvar = Request.servervariables("REMOTE_USER") %>

not sure about the syntax or if remote user is right. just google asp server variables. pop that into a session var and you are good to go


also WRONG FORUM

 

[torpid]

Originally posted by: DougK62
The question is simple. Is there an easy way (hopefully using ASP, PHP, or something simpler) to grab a user's Windows login name when they go to a web page?

My situation is that I'm making an intranet page, and I'd like it to customize web links based on who is viewing it without having the user do some sort of authentication.

If you use integrated Windows authentication on the web site you can. If it's anonymous access enabled, you can't easily.