[kman42]

I know I can use NSFullUserName() to get the users name. Is there an analogous way to get the name of the computer?

kman

[Angus_D]

SCDynamicStoreCopyComputerName in SystemConfiguration.framework

[kman42]

Originally posted by Angus_D:
SCDynamicStoreCopyComputerName in SystemConfiguration.framework

Thanks. How do I go about actually getting that information?

kman

[Angus_D]

Create a dynamic store, and copy it out using that function. See the headers and documentation.

[kman42]

Sorry. I don't know what a dynamic store is and I can't find those frameworks anywhere. Could you explain a bit more for a newbie? I haven't ventured much out of Foundation and Appkit.

kman

[seb2]

Don't worry about the store. Just pass "NULL", it'll create a temporary session for you:

NSString *hostname = (NSString *)SCDynamicStoreCopyComputerName(NULL, NULL);

does the trick.

[Chuckit]

Just remember that 1) You'll have to link in the SystemConfiguration framework, 2) You'll have to include <SystemConfiguration/SystemConfiguration.h>, and 3) You'll have to release the string obtained from that function.

[kman42]

Originally posted by Chuckit:
Just remember that 1) You'll have to link in the SystemConfiguration framework, 2) You'll have to include <SystemConfiguration/SystemConfiguration.h>, and 3) You'll have to release the string obtained from that function.

Well, I think I did #2 okay, but I'm not sure how to do #1. For #2, I just did:
#import <SystemConfiguration/SystemConfiguration.h>

Here's the error I'm getting now during the build:

ld: ~/Documents/Programming/F@HMonitor/build/[email protected]/[email protected]/Objects-normal/ppc/FMController.o illegal reference to symbol: _SCDynamicStoreCopyComputerName defined in indirectly referenced dynamic library /System/Library/Frameworks/SystemConfiguration.framework/Versions/A/SystemConfiguration

[kman42]

Nevermind. I found the 'Add Framework...' menu item in PB. Now it works great! Thanks for all the help.

kman