XP Username in NC Program

[Andy Hackney]

Does anybody know of a way to output your Windows Username to NC programs? Ideally this would be automatically done by the post-processor?

 

Thanks in advance

 

Andy Hackney

[Storkman]

Not other than hardcoding it. But then it would only be right for you and no one else.

 

 

Welcome to the forum.

[Bullines]

You could call a VBScript from your post that gets the user name of the person currently logged into the computer and writes it out to a text file. You could then read the username from the text file into a buffer in the post and use it as you see fit. Here's what the script might look like:

 

code:

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Const DEF_OUTFILE = "C:Whereeveryouwantout.txt"

 

' Kick off the script

Call Main()

 

 

' Purpose: the main subroutine

Sub Main()

Dim objFSO ' FileSystem object

Dim objTS ' File text stream object

Dim objNetwork ' Network object

Dim strUserName ' current user name

 

 

' Retreive the username of the person currently logged into the

' computer. Write the username out to a text file.

Set objNetwork = WScript.CreateObject("WScript.Network")

strUserName = objNetwork.UserName

 

Set objFSO = CreateObject("Scripting.FileSystemObject")

Set objTS = objFSO.CreateTextFile(DEF_OUTFILE, True)

objTS.WriteLine(strUserName)

objTS.Close

 

' Cleanup

Set objFSO = Nothing

Set objNetwork = Nothing

End Sub

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Modify the DEF_OUTFILE constant to include the path of your choosing.

 

HTH