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- From: kca@engin.umich.edu (Jonathan Van Oast)
- Subject: more (questions) on get_user_FULL_name ??
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- Date: Mon, 31 Aug 92 12:46:16 EDT
- Organization: University of Michigan Engineering, Ann Arbor
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- in a previous post, some asked about netware calls to determine a users
- full name as well as login name. to help out, i sent info on the user_name,
- and then looked into full_name. i am not a netware expert, but (using
- lan times' "programmers guide to netware" -- a useful tool) have managed
- to write code doing everthing from the aforementioned getting a users
- login name to mapping drives. anwyay.. in this book i found only ONE
- reference (i could have missed some...) to a users full name. this was
- in the get_station_logged_information (E3h 05h). this also seems to be
- the only place to extract home_directory (if you need this). the big deal
- is, i THINK (maybe i just coded wrong), it does not work. NOTE that the
- book notes: "this call is supported in ... NetWare386 [what i use]. It has
- been replaced by higher-level calls such as Get Connection Information but
- is shown here for completeness."
-
- i am wondering if maybe it really ISNT supported in netware 386, (either that
- or i coded wrong -- has anyone else made this work?), AND what is the
- "higher-level call" which replaced the part about full_name (which is not
- in Get Connection Information)?
-
- any help along these lines would greatly be appreciated. i am guessing it
- IS possible to get the full_name since there is a variable to access it for
- login scripts (and it would be silly(?) not to be able to access it).
-
- thanks, -jon pc&ns kca@caen.engin.umich.edu
-