Determine Client's Computer Name

Question

I am building an intranet site that will display different lists based on the computer name because different computers are in different areas, is there a way (within a cont

Answer 1

No. The client's computer name is not available in any way on the server. This is the nature of the http request-response. You only can have its IP address.

A workarounds could be to retrieve machine on the client from Flash/Silverlight (I doubt JavaScript) and put in into cookie which is available on the server with each request. But there is a whole stack of issues with this approach.