Thread: Problems accessing logged on user via System.Security

Hi.

In a C#/ASP web application, I used

String username = System.Security.Principal.WindowsIdentity.GetCurre nt().Name;

to get the username of the user currently logged on to Windows. And this works fine when accessing the webpage if it's on my own computer but when I publish the site and access it from anywhere else, it returns “NT AUTHORITY\NETWORK SERVICE” for the username.

Is there any way to have this work for people accessing the site from somewhere else as well?

Thanks,
Conor.

The username of the user using the site. Preferably the username from his/her machine.

It's to store information in an SQL database along with the persons username so when they come back, it can automatically be retrieved.

Conor.

Yeah, that was how it was originally set up but then when getting the local user's username worked, it cleaned up the whole process up.

So there's no way of getting it from a machine logging in over a network / website?