Windows Environment Variables

Is Coldfusion able to grab the Windows Environment variables
of the user that is viewing a CF page? I am wondering about reading
the windows username currently logged in on the client machine. I
don't think this is the same as CGI variables.

We are running a Novell network. The IIS machine has the
Novell client installed. If the user has not personally logged into
the IIS machine, it will not authenticate them through the CF page.
It worked great if the user already had a profile on Windows. Is
there a way around this besides having users log into the machine,
which really isn't an option?
Suppose I am Average Joe User viewing the site. My own
computer is running the Novell client and I have logged into this,
so therefore windows has a profile for me, and my username is
stored in the Username Environment variable (which is viewable by
typing 'set' in the command prompt). Can CF grab that username
Environment variable off my computer and use it at all? Or is it
all based on the username on the IIS server?

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