Problem with Environment.MachineName

[Ely]

When I call the Environment.Machinename to try to get the local machines
name, I get a "Object reference not set to an instance of an object" error.
This same code works fine on my local machine, it just started having
problems when i rolled it out to a production machine.

Thanks

 

[Natty Gur]

Hi,

Maybe your ASP.NET account doesn't have permission to read environment
variables. Refer to:
http://msdn.microsoft.com/library/default.asp?url=/library/en-us/cpref/h
tml/frlrfsystemenvironmentclassmachinenametopic.asp

Natty Gur[MVP]

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[Ely]

This was from a windows service, not asp.net.

However, I did find the answer to my problem. The computer had netbios
disabled. Once I re-enabled netbios, the command worked fine.

Thanks for the response.