Sorry, I wasn't paying close enough attention to what you said. The way I
handle it is transparent to the user but does require having authentication
turned at IIS.
Ken
> CGI.REMOTE_USER doesn't seem to be available unless the user
> authenticates against the web server (in our case, IIS on Win2K).
>
> What we were thinking of doing was bypassing that step entirely
> since they authenticate to the workstation to begin with (which
> is where the idea of using the NT Environment Variables
> (%username%) came from).
>
> Thanks for the suggestion, though.
>
> :)
>
> Joe
>
> > -----Original Message-----
> > From: Ken Wilson [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]
> > Sent: Saturday, February 24, 2001 5:42 PM
> > To: CF-Talk
> > Subject: RE: How to access client's NT system/user environment vars?
> >
> >
> >
> > Will CGI.REMOTE_USER not give you enough to work with? I use
> > that to make it
> > a transparent process for IE users. Netscape users muddy the
> > water a bit but
> > can still be dealt with if required. So what's your setup
> > like? NT/IIS? What
> > browsers?
>
>
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