How To Get The User's Username In My Intranet Web Application In A Windows Network

I have a simple HTML page internally which just displays a form and asks the user to fill it out. I want to automatically capture the windows domain username and machine name to su

Solution 1:

Using only javascript on a none IIS server then it isn't possible.

However:

If you are using IIS then you can use the following JS:

<scriptlanguage="javascript">var username = '<%HttpContext.Current.User.Identity.Name %>';

</script>

Assuming you have turned Windows Authentication on in IIS for your site, then C# side:

C#

publicstring user_Name
{
    get
    {
        string x = Page.User.Identity.Name;

        x = x.Replace("YOURDOMAIN\\", "");

        return x;
    }
}

The x = x.Replace("DOMAIN\\", ""); strips out the DOMAIN sectionof the user acccount e.g NISSAN\rmcdonough

Solution 2:

capturing the windows domain username and machine name, I think we can't