Re: NT username detectable?

With IIS you can disable basic authentication for your files. This will cause the server to either prompt for a userid/password or to use the info sent by the client (IE will send this info if the user is authenticated on the domain). - Frank > In the html headers, the server sees the clients OS, user agent, IP > address etc. Is there a way on a local LAN a server might be able to know > the username of the client that sends a request? > > I've checked all $_SERVER variables, PHP_AUTH_USER etc require the auth > box to be displayed. I'm thinking it might be possible to know which user > is logged in when the request is made, possibly by using COM or even > (gasp) .NET, without having to ask the user his username. > > Any ideas if this can be accomplished at all? > > Right now we have Firefox clients and Apache with PHP in an Active > Directory domain with NT4 compatibility, but we can move to IE6 with > IIS+PHP if that will work. >