Gathering information about a workstation

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Some times you need information about a workstation, for example if you want to know if
a workstation is not running WindowsNT and you try some NT-specific job without any
chance. I think this pseudo-routine can be helpful.


#include <what_you_need.h>
/*Usually:
#include <lmcons.h>
#include <lmwksta.h>
#include <lmserver.h>
#include <lmerr.h>*/

// Network API job – obtain network info about selected machine.
BOOL
_GetWkstaInformation100()
{
LPBYTE lpBuf;
LPCSTR lpcstrWkstaName = (LPCSTR)m_strWkstaName;

int iwLength = 2 * (MAX_COMPUTERNAME_LENGTH + 1);
WCHAR lpwWkstaName[2 * (MAX_COMPUTERNAME_LENGTH + 1)];

lpwWkstaName[0] = ‘’;
MultiByteToWideChar(CP_ACP, 0, lpcstrWkstaName, -1, lpwWkstaName, iwLength);

typedef NET_API_STATUS (NET_API_FUNCTION *NETWKPROC)(LPWSTR, DWORD, LPBYTE *);

NETWKPROC _procNetWkstaGetInfo = (NETWKPROC)
(GetProcAddress(theApp.m_hNetDLL, _T(“NetWkstaGetInfo”)));

if(_procNetWkstaGetInfo)
{
NET_API_STATUS nasRetVal = (*_procNetWkstaGetInfo)(lpwWkstaName, 100, (LPBYTE*)&lpBuf);

if(nasRetVal == NERR_Success)
{
WKSTA_INFO_100 *pWkstaInfo = (WKSTA_INFO_100 *)lpBuf;
DWORD dwPlatformId = pWkstaInfo->wki100_platform_id;

if(dwPlatformId != PLATFORM_ID_NT)
{
//[ERROR]Not a Windows NT Workstation – if useful.
return FALSE;
}
else
return TRUE;
}
else
{
//[ERROR] System error. Call GetLastError, FormatMessage, etc.
return FALSE;
}
}
else
{
//[ERROR]Unable to find procedure NetWkstaGetInfo in netapi32.dll.
return FALSE;
}
}

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