Need help with grabbing user name

[natetron66]

Hi, I'm having a little trouble grabbing a user name. I have a script currently that grabs OS, RAM, Hard Drive, etc for invenotry that runs as a startup script and saves to sql. Currently I grab the user name, which all of our employee numbers are there user name. Example: 16830 is the user name I'm getting. However, I want to get there actual Employee Name. In Active Directory, for each user, there Display name is their full name. In Windows, when I click start, it says log off "John Doe" so the Display name is being passed with each user name.

So, based on that. I need assistance obtaining the Display Name from Active Directory, based on the username of the currently logged in user. Thanks ahead of time for your help!

[Valuater]

@UserName ?

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BTW.... Welcome to the Autoit Forums... 8)

Edited April 6, 2009 by Valuater

[natetron66]

@UserName ?

8)

BTW.... Welcome to the Autoit Forums... 8)

I am using @username to grab the user name. Yes that is working. User name is returning as 16830, which is the employee #. But I also want to grab their FULL NAME which is the Display Name in Active Directory.

[DaRam]

Check out

%windir%\System32\rundll32.exe dsquery,OpenQueryWindow

[natetron66]

Check out

%windir%\System32\rundll32.exe dsquery,OpenQueryWindow

How's that help?

[DaRam]

Did you try it? It can be used to query AD. Once you have it working for a single user, then you can possibly script it for other users.

Aaah, Forget it! Just look here http://www.autoitscript.com/forum/index.ph...45&p=386373

How's that help?

[natetron66]

Yes I did try that. And I used this usage of it:

dsquery user -samid %username%

and it returns what I'm looking for.

So now, I just have to have that command run within AutoIt, any help with running that dos command in autoit daram??

[Zombie1982]

Yes I did try that. And I used this usage of it:

dsquery user -samid %username%

and it returns what I'm looking for.

So now, I just have to have that command run within AutoIt, any help with running that dos command in autoit daram??

Run or ShellExecute, mayhap? I dont quite know much more to suggest myself.

Luckily there are much smarter people than me hanging around here.

[natetron66]

Run or ShellExecute, mayhap? I dont quite know much more to suggest myself.

Luckily there are much smarter people than me hanging around here.

Tried that. And I keep getting an error saying error in dsquery. Missing entry:user.

The same command runs fine from command line, but when using shellexecute i get this error. HELP! Need o get this done today. Thanks guys!

[weaponx]

Here you go:

#570726

[natetron66]

Here you go:

#570726

Dude thanks so much!!! Exactly what I was looking for!!!