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Network machine name in Win95 with Novell?
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02/09/1997 16:36:54
Matt Mc Donnell
Mc Donnell Software Consulting
Boston, Massachusetts, United States
 
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Visual FoxPro
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Client/server
Miscellaneous
Thread ID:
00048101
Message ID:
00048108
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>I've been told here in my new job with VFP that the previous programmer discovered that he could not access the "machine name" in Win95 as he had been doing in Win 3.1.
>This is all new territory for me, but I have to learn how to set up access levels for about 80 people, so if anyone is knowledgeable about what is possible on the network with Win95, I would appreciate some clues....
>Thank you, Tom Hayward

I had this problem once before. I'm racking my brain for my solution...

In either your autoexec.bat or startnet.bat you can SET USERNAME = {terminal name} to set a DOS environment variable. (I seem to remember that you can get the terminal name from NOVELL using a DOS command but I don't remember exactly what it is.) You can then use GETENV() to return the system environment variable. I believe that there is something similar that can be done on a 95 or NT network. The one drawback is that it requires some autoexec.bat maintenance.
Matt McDonnell
...building a better mousetrap with moldy cheese...
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