Here it is, but you should also visit my API site that is dedicated to API calls in either C, VB or Delphi.

http://users.chariot.net.au/~akia/Home.htm

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Declare Function LogonUser _
    Lib "advapi32" _
    Alias "LogonUserA" ( _
    ByVal lpszUser As String, _
    ByVal lpszDomain As String, _
    ByVal lpszPass As String, _
    ByVal dwLogonType As Long, _
    ByVal dwLogonProvider As Long, _
    Handle As Long) As Long

Declare Function CloseHandle _
    Lib "kernel32" (Handle As Long) As Long
        
Global Const LOGON32_LOGON_INTERACTIVE = 2
Global Const LOGON32_LOGON_NETWORK = 3
Global Const LOGON32_LOGON_BATCH = 4
Global Const LOGON32_LOGON_SERVICE = 5

Global Const LOGON32_PROVIDER_DEFAULT = 0

Const FORMAT_MESSAGE_FROM_SYSTEM = &H1000
Const FORMAT_MESSAGE_ALLOCATE_BUFFER = &H100

Const FORMAT_MESSAGE_FROM_HMODULE = &H800




    Const NERR_BASE = 2100
    Const MAX_NERR = NERR_BASE + 899 ' This is the last error in
                                     ' NERR   range.
    Const LOAD_LIBRARY_AS_DATAFILE = &H2
Declare Function LoadLibraryEx _
    Lib "kernel32" _
    Alias "LoadLibraryExA" ( _
    ByVal lpLibFileName As String, _
    ByVal hFile As Long, _
    ByVal dwFlags As Long) As Long

Declare Function FreeLibrary Lib "kernel32" _
       (ByVal hLibModule As Long) As Long

Declare Function FormatMessage _
    Lib "Kernel32.dll" _
    Alias "FormatMessageA" ( _
    ByVal Flags As Long, _
    ByVal Source As Long, _
    ByVal MessageID As Long, _
    ByVal LanguageID As Long, _
    ByVal Buffer As String, _
    ByVal Size As Long, _
    args As Any) As Long

Declare Function LocalFree _
    Lib "Kernel32.dll" _
    ( _
    ByVal Handle As Long) As Long

Public Function Logon(strUser As String, _
    strDomain As String, _
    strPass As String, _
    strError As String) As Long
    
Dim lngError As Long
Dim lngHandle As Long

    lngError = LogonUser( _
        strUser, _
        strDomain, _
        strPass, _
        LOGON32_LOGON_INTERACTIVE, _
        LOGON32_PROVIDER_DEFAULT, _
        lngHandle)
        
    If lngError = 0 Then
    
        strError = ErrorMessage(Err.LastDllError)
        Logon = -1
        
    Else
    
        Logon = 0
        lngError = CloseHandle(lngHandle)
        
    End If
    
End Function

Function ErrorMessage(lCode As Long) As String

Dim lngError As Long
Dim ptrBuffer As Long
Dim strMessage As String
Dim hModule As Long
Dim lngFlags As Long
Dim str As String

        lngFlags = FORMAT_MESSAGE_FROM_SYSTEM

         If (lCode >= NERR_BASE And lCode <= MAX_NERR) Then
            hModule = LoadLibraryEx("netmsg.dll", 0&, _
                      LOAD_LIBRARY_AS_DATAFILE)
            If (hModule <> 0) Then
                lngFlags = lngFlags Or FORMAT_MESSAGE_FROM_HMODULE
    End If
            End If

    strMessage = Space$(256)
    lngError = FormatMessage( _
        lngFlags, _
        hModule, _
        lCode, _
        0&, _
        strMessage, _
        256, _
        0&)
        If (hModule <> 0) Then
    lngError = FreeLibrary(hModule)
    

    End If
    ErrorMessage = strMessage

End Function

Thank you Paul, I will put your code to the test...

Hi,
  I tried to run this code, but I got an error:
"A required privilege is not held by the client."
Looking around, I have found that this is due to my application not having the SE_TCB_NAME privilege, which is required for LogonUser to work.  Did you run your code as a service so that it had this privilege, or did you change its privileges programatically some how (AdjustTokenPrivileges??)?
  Any help would be greatly appreciated.
  Thanks.
  katie

on NT there is a environement var that give the user name
try echo %USERNAME% in Command prompt

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