Re: Retrieve desktop user ID from AS400 -- MIDRANGE-L

I wrote an article about using STRPCCMD to get the Windows userid. Here's a link to that article (requires System iNetwork membership)

http://systeminetwork.com/article/getting-windows-user-id

Wilt, Charles wrote:

Short answer....you can't. How in the world would you expect the System i be able to tell?

Long answer....
With IBM's emulator, you can have the Windows User ID used for the device name. So you could make use
of that.

if you're using IBM System i Access for Windows PC5250 emulation software, you could use STRPCCMD to
invoke a PC program that would send the data back.

Or you could install a Windows Service that you could connect to over TCP/IP using the IP and have the
service send the data back.

Lastly, get rid of the common profile...if you want to do so easily make it the group profile for the
individual profiles.

Charles Wilt Software Engineer
CINTAS Corporation - IT 92B
513.701.1307

wiltc@xxxxxxxxxx

-----Original Message-----
From: midrange-l-bounces@xxxxxxxxxxxx [mailto:midrange-l-
bounces@xxxxxxxxxxxx] On Behalf Of Ganesh Kumar Murugesan
Sent: Thursday, April 10, 2008 9:33 PM
To: midrange-l@xxxxxxxxxxxx
Subject: Retrieve desktop user ID from AS400

Long time user, first time poster.

We have some common testing profiles on our AS400 machine. Sometimes its
difficult to track who used this common profile on a particular day in
case
of object locking/trouble shooting/auditing. So this is what I did.

Look at the device description of the interactive job used by the AS400
common user profile (usually the interactive job name). Write a small
program to use QDCRDEVD to retrieve the IP address of an interactive job.
I
have done so far but it's meaningless to just have the IP address of the
person. It would be better if I can find out the windows desktop user ID,
using which the user has logged on to our LAN network. I couldn't find any
API which does this. So now how to find the windows user id using the IP
address of the PC from AS400?

Thanks in advance
--
This is the Midrange Systems Technical Discussion (MIDRANGE-L) mailing
list
To post a message email: MIDRANGE-L@xxxxxxxxxxxx
To subscribe, unsubscribe, or change list options,
visit: http://lists.midrange.com/mailman/listinfo/midrange-l
or email: MIDRANGE-L-request@xxxxxxxxxxxx
Before posting, please take a moment to review the archives
at http://archive.midrange.com/midrange-l.

This e-mail transmission contains information that is intended to be confidential and privileged. If you receive this e-mail and you are not a named addressee you are hereby notified that you are not authorized to read, print, retain, copy or disseminate this communication without the consent of the sender and that doing so is prohibited and may be unlawful. Please reply to the message immediately by informing the sender that the message was misdirected. After replying, please delete and otherwise erase it and any attachments from your computer system. Your assistance in correcting this error is appreciated.