Win2k Username and Group Permission retrieval

[carbondragon]

G'day,

I'm still relatively new at coding in PHP, and so I'm looking for some help with a question.

Is it possible to retrieve the username and group permission of that user under win2k using PHP (eg, to determine if the user was an Administrator, standard user or guest)?

The reason I'd need to retrieve that information is because I'm working on a booking system using PHP, which has two different views. The first, a standard view allows a user to make a booking, while the second is for the administrator side, with more powerful tools.

If I can retrieve the username and group permission of a user wanting to user the booking system, then I can automatically direct that user to the correct location, as well as user their username when booking items.

Any ideas?

Thanks.

[jmcneese]

if you enable "Integrated Windows Authentication" and disable anonymous access to your server (i'm assuming that you are using IIS 5.0+), then you can use the $_SERVER['AUTH_USER'] variable, which is the domain logon.