Passing Windows Identity name to server

Question

I need to get my logged in Windows user name, from the PC I am using to the server hosting my site.

In my code I have the following line:

  var user = WindowsIdentity.GetCurrent().Name;

When I run my project locally it returns what I expect: myComputer\UserAccountName

However, when I deploy my site to my server, it is picking up my servers username: myServer\ServerAccountName

What is the call that I need to make in order to correctly pass down UserAccountName and not have the ServerAccountName used instead?

Answer 1

can you not use the following?

User.Identity.Name;