Set User Name to Workstation Name

[Sang]

In our solution we want all users who log in to a particular Windows XP workstation to have their Filemaker application User Name set to the Workstation name not the individual AD name. The Users can move from station to station and we want to have some functionality constrained to a particular station.

The problem is if a new user logs in, a prompt will come up the first time they open Filemaker which asks the user for a name and defaults to the AD User name instead of the workstation name. Is there any way to either get this set once for all or have it default to the workstation name?

[Steven H. Blackwell]

Well, you can use the "User Name" function from within FileMaker Pro that will take this value. This is exactly 100% backwards of how the system is really designed to work. And since that name can be changed at will on [color:red]any installation of any workstation, it likely is not going to give you the result you want.

To constrain actions to a specific workstation you could capture the MAC address of the machine in question. Or, you could set up a specific Account and have AD allow log-on for that Account from only the one machine.

Steven

[Sang]

Did you mean the NIC Address?

That might work. We'll test it out. Thanks

[Steven H. Blackwell]

Yes. The FIleMaker terminology is

Get( SystemNICAddress )

HTH

Steven

[Mikhail Edoshin]

I normally identify workstations with a little file I export in the Preferences folder and then import back at startup.