detecting logged on user

[sdkramer]

I need something on a web page to detect the username of a person logged onto a machine

eg. bob is on computer 1 looking at server2

I need something that will spit out bob when bob goes to a certain page on server2

everything i find online seems to run on the server side. so I get things like IUSER_SERVER2.

Thanks in advance,

Seth

[GhostRecon]

something popping up saying my name would scare me...

[mairving]

You could only do this if someone logged in the system by giving you their username, name and other variables and you could drop a cookie and/or a session. It would not work otherwise.

[sdkramer]

ok let me ask a more general question then. How could I verify a user without having them log on.

Here's the situation:

I have users on our corporate intranet. They have to log onto our helpdesk page to submit a problem. This creates another password that they have to remember. Is there anyway I could use their NT logon to the current machine as an authentication? or some other means to authenticate. I want to know who's submitting the ticket, but I'd like to save them the trouble of typing it in.

Thanks,

Seth

[mairving]

You should be able to use NTLM. Do a search on Goggle for more info.