get windows username in aspx webpage

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hi,

VB.net, VS2010
i would want to get the username of the person logged client pc that accesses the webpage
i have tried

HttpContext.Current.User.Identity.Name.ToString().Remove(0, 7)

but once the webpage is in the live env, it throws an error

please help me on this

thanks
Joe

Posted 13-Oct-11 1:40am

joe_j

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[no name] 13-Oct-11 7:41am

And what is the error?

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That won't work unless you are using Membership Providers, and even then it will only give you the user log in to your web system.
You cannot get the client log in identity for his machine - he may not even have one, but security does not allow you to even find that out.
The server cannot access details of the users environment, and his log in id is part of that information.

Posted 13-Oct-11 1:45am

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joe_j · Accepted Answer · 2011-10-24T04:20:00

after some searching, got the way to do this and is working well
had set the authentication to windows in the webconfig and set up IIS to use basic windows authentication.
and it pulls out the username with the

VB

User.Identity.Name

and adding System.Web and System.Web.Security

tried using this after hosting it on the server and works well.