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While you can use many different API function to get user and domain information, if you're running under Windows NT or 2000 Server there is a shortest path, based on the fact that the operating system loads many piece of data into environment variables: Click here to copy the following block ' this code works only under Windows NT and Windows 2000 Server Debug.Print "Computer Name: " & Environ$("COMPUTERNAME") Debug.Print "Logon Server: " & Environ$("LOGONSERVER") Debug.Print "User Domain: " & Environ$("USERDOMAIN") Debug.Print "User Name: " & Environ$("USERNAME")

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