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4/8/2010

An application can use the WNetGetUserfunction to retrieve the name of the user associated with a connected network resource. The following code example shows how WNetGetUserfunction retrieves a user name based on a device name called MyDevice.

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TCHAR szUserName[80];
DWORD dwResult, 
	cchBuffer = 80;

dwResult = WNetGetUser (TEXT("MyDevice"), szUserName,
&cchBuffer);

if (dwResult == ERROR_SUCCESS)
  MessageBox (hwnd, szUserName, TEXT("Info"), MB_OK);
else 
{
  ErrorHandler (hwnd, dwResult, TEXT("WNetGetUser"));
  return FALSE;
}

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