I am developing a tool to prevent the duplicate login to Baan.

I am able to extract a logged user list by calling the following command from a VB app.:

licmon -w > C:\users.txt

So, whenever a bw client is attemp to connect to Baan, then I would compare the caller name with the logged user list in order to perform the suitable action (either start the ntbshell or send a error message to user).

Finally, my question is...

How can I make my VB program to obtain the caller name (i.e. the bw client who attempt to connect Baan) in order to do the comparing against the logged user list?

I know there is a baan command for it:

get.bw.hostname() (http://www.baanboard.com/programmers_manual_baanerp_help_functions_system_and_user_information_get_bw_hostname)

I think that's only available in Baan V.

Is that what you need? If you can't find from VB direct, maybe you can trigger a library in Baan that sends that out for you.

Also this wiki link has an overview of similar functions:

Overview System and User Info (http://www.baanboard.com/programmers_manual_baanerp_help_functions_system_and_user_information_overview_and_synopsis)

Thanks for your reply:)

Regarding this get.bw.hostname()

Pardon me that i am not an expert in using this function. Would you please guide me where i should put this function, is it inside the visual basic program?

Or would you please kindly provide me a sample coding of using this?

Thank you!

I know that to prevent multiple login to baan, we can modify the ipc_info file, and point it to a vb program to do the user verification instead of start the ntbshell.

So on server side, whenever a bw client is attempt to connect to baan server, how can i obtain the bw client's user name in order to do the verification?

what i means is, the user verification is done before the client start the ntbshell, since user is not connect to Baan, how can i know the user name?

My Baan server is a Windows 2000 server.

Thank you.

It's a Baan command - would have to be triggered after opening a shell. I see now you want to verify before the shell starts.

I am not familiar with programming at that stage - from the ipc_info stage. You should have the bw 'requestor' in hand but sorry I don't know the variable.

Try checking this post - with links to others.

Login Restriction post (http://www.baanboard.com/baanboard/showthread.php?s=&threadid=6363&highlight=logins)

your vb appliction is receiving some arguments, the first one looks something like this:
your_vb_app_name+(login@host:1540/SOCKET)
you coud extract the caller parsing the first argument.