Help to get/set workgroup in Win2K/NT

[Chris Meng]

Can you help me? How to get workgroup name on the Windows2000/NT by VC++ system calls? Due to the security of 2000/NT operating system, the workgroup(not domain) name was saved inside local Sam database, I want to know how to extract the data from the System..

Any help will be great appreciated...

[ezway]

Hi Chris!

How to get my workgroup?
The following code get workgroup from local computer using the NetWkstaGetInfo() function.


1. Import file (Netapi32.lib).
2. include file (lm.h).

BOOL GetWorkgroup(LPTSTR pszName)
{
	DWORD dwLevel = 102;
	LPWKSTA_INFO_102 pBuf = NULL;
	NET_API_STATUS nStatus;
	LPTSTR	pszServerName = NULL;
	BOOL	bRes=FALSE;

	nStatus = NetWkstaGetInfo(NULL, dwLevel, (LPBYTE *)&pBuf);
	if (nStatus == NERR_Success)
	{
		TCHAR szTemp[MAX_PATH]={'\0',};
		int BufSize=sizeof(szTemp)/sizeof(TCHAR);
	#ifdef UNICODE
		_tcscpy(szTemp, pBuf->wki102_langroup);
	#else
		::WideCharToMultiByte(CP_ACP, 0, pBuf->wki102_langroup, -1, szTemp, BufSize, 0, 0);
	#endif
		 lstrcpy(pszName, szTemp);
		 bRes=TRUE;
	}

	if (pBuf != NULL)
      NetApiBufferFree(pBuf);

	return bRes;
}

[PeejAvery]

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[hammackj]

Awesome thank you, solved my problem!

[BitNinja]

I think ezway did the right thing.

[Belzeski]

I think ezway did the right thing.

Yeah, this is the landmark to move on