identifying user from Win9x?

[Christopher Tavares]

"Frank Miles" <fpm at u.washington.edu> wrote in message
news:92ibvf$if2$1 at nntp6.u.washington.edu...
> I have a set of python routines that are used to coordinate and
> account for various activities in my group.  I would like to be
> able to tailor how these routines work, and what options are first
> presented to each user.
>
> There are ways to determine the user ID in Unix-based systems (os.getuid).
> I haven't yet seen anything comparable for Windows.  Possible source
> of information: it is SOP for each user to login to the (Novell-based)
> network before doing anything else.  Is there some way to extract this
> information from Windows, or failing that, a Novell network/server?
>
> TIA...
>
> -frank
>

The Win32 API call that you want is WNetGetUser. I would expect that it's
exposed from the win32net module in the python win32 extensions. I can't be
sure because I don't have python installed on the machine in front of me at
the moment.

-Chris