Comments on: ASP.NET – Get User Name Under Windows Authentication

By: Seth

Seth — Thu, 08 Apr 2010 19:07:17 +0000

The only consistent solution was AD Guys as we use Form Authentication in our project and none of the others would pull the information but that one. We have a need for a seperate part of our application to pull AD Information but sill need Forms Authentication for others and that solution was the only one that worked.

Thanks AD Guy.

By: Chuck

Chuck — Mon, 14 Dec 2009 21:05:01 +0000

Even easier to get the AD user name

my.user.name

By: Byron Bennett

Byron Bennett — Thu, 09 Jul 2009 13:24:20 +0000

@Thang, @AD Guy,

Thanks for the hints!
Byron

By: AD Guy

AD Guy — Thu, 09 Jul 2009 07:24:22 +0000

DirectoryEntry dEntry = new DirectoryEntry(“WinNT://” + Environment.UserDomainName + “/” + Environment.UserName);
return dEntry.Properties["fullName"].Value.ToString();

By: Thang

Thang — Fri, 03 Jul 2009 09:15:33 +0000

Hi Brian,
You try with below code
string strAccount = HttpContext.Current.User.Identity.Name.ToString();
string strUserName = strAccount .Split(“\\”.ToCharArray())[1];

have fun coding,
BB

By: Byron Bennett

Byron Bennett — Sun, 28 Jun 2009 06:20:29 +0000

Brain,
I’m not sure. I was getting the domain name when I was using it since I was on a LAN with Active Directory running. Since the domain was always the same for my app, I checked for it and replaced it. Sorry I don’t have the answer right now.

By: Brian

Brian — Fri, 26 Jun 2009 18:18:31 +0000

Thanks for the help above though

The above code returns the whole name including the computer name
eg
when i write those codes to my computer i gives me the following result

BROMPO-379477BA\Brian

But i just want to get Brian and not the whole string how will i do that???