whoami

[emmetkelly]

Hi,

Do any of you know how to get the User Name from Novell, like the whoami command? Or is there another way to get this info (that I'm obviously not aware of)?

Thanks,
Emmet.

[klaus]

Hello Emmet,

as far as I remeber it is the whoami.exe command in a DOS box.

Kind regards

Klaus

[emmetkelly]

Thanks for that, Klaus.

Unfortunately, I need the user name as per the Novell login, not the Windows user name.

If I use DOS whoami.exe command, I get: "AC0350\user" . . . whereas, in Novell it's: "kellye".

Thanks,
Emmet.

[marten]

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This tip was submitted by Ashley Levin.

The following code shows how to access the Novell API and get the usename.

Declare the following external functions:

function ulong NWInitialize() library "NWInfo"
function ulong NWGetInfo( Long Drv, Long info, ref string buffer ) Library "NWInfo"

Then declare a function and add the following code:

// i_sys=1 - novell
string login_name
string ls_temp
integer drv,info
long l_ret

login_name = "user_name_error"

if i_sys = 1 then   // novell login name.
   l_ret = NWInitialize()    // init the dll, check for client 32 ...
   if l_ret  = 0  then
      drv = 7 // network drive g:
      info = 35 // typeless user name
      ls_temp = Space( 129 )
      //  get the login name for specific drive
      l_ret = NWGetInfo( drv, info, ls_temp )
      if l_ret = 0 then
         login_name = Trim( ls_temp )
      end if
   end if         
end if

return login_name


[emmetkelly]

Thanks, Marten. I'll try that.

However, can it not just be done through Smalltalk?

[marten]

Thanks, Marten. I'll try that.

However, can it not just be done through Smalltalk?

Well, I even do not know, which Novell software has to be installed to get what you want to do !?!?!?!? I just googled around and found this tip. If you have the dynamic libraries mentioned in that example, you may wrap these calls in Smalltalk and then you have the solution.

[emmetkelly]

Thanks again Marten.

I'm actually going to try a different approach. The reason I was trying to use Novell's whoami command, was to get the User Name. I was then going to use the User Name, to get all the user's details from LDAP. However, I believe that I can get the user's details from LDAP by using the Host Name. That is, I'll use the Socket Manager to get the Host Name, and then I'll get the User Info through an Ldap Session.

Thanks once again,
Emmet.