> We are in the process of converting from FPW2.6 to VFP3 on a Novell
> Network.
>
> In FPW26, we always used Getenv('FullName') to retrieve the user "Full
> Name" from the network.
> This always worked fine. However, in VFP3 the same Getenv('FullName')
> function will work on
> a few machines but in most cases the function returns a blank. The
> workstation PCs are
> running either Win95 or Win31. The Getenv() fails on both types of
> workstaions.
>
> Has anybody else noticed this behaviour? How did you work around it?
Much better to use the WNetGetUser() Windows API function. I used this
and noticed no change when the network was switched from Novell to NT.
This also is not reliant on a DOS environment variable that the user can
change.
/Paul