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Dear AnonyMonk,

In your script, get the ip address or the DHCP name of the machine making a request. Pass that value to nbtstat using the correct flag (-a or -A for DHCP or IP, respectively) and capture the output.

nbtstat will return the username, computer name and the workgroup/domain name of the computer you specified.

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Hope this helps, and good luck!

John J Reiser
newrisedesigns.com

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Re: Re: (nrd) Getting Windows NT User Name using Perl
by jj808 (Hermit) on Oct 06, 2002 at 15:32 UTC
    I know that the original post referred to Apache on NT4, however if you're running a UNIX server (and so do not have access to the nbtstat command), there is a similar program called NBTScan which compiles on both UNIX and Windows.

    It is available from http://www.inetcat.org/software/nbtscan.html. This page also links to a Perl version of the program which runs under UNIX (but requires Samba nmblookup utility to be installed).

    JJ

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