internal static bool IsLocalMachineName(string machineName) { const string comResDllName = "ComRes.dll"; const string englishMyComputer = "My Computer"; const int IDS_MYCOMPUTER = 1824; // resource id for My Computer in ComRes.dll if (localizedMyComputerString == null) { // default value localizedMyComputerString = englishMyComputer; #pragma warning suppress 56523 IntPtr comResDll = SafeNativeMethods.LoadLibrary(comResDllName); if (comResDll != IntPtr.Zero) { StringBuilder sb; int len, size = 16; do { sb = new StringBuilder(size); #pragma warning suppress 56523 len = SafeNativeMethods.LoadString(comResDll, IDS_MYCOMPUTER, sb, size); if (len > 0 && len < size) { localizedMyComputerString = sb.ToString(); break; } size *= 2; } while (len > 0); #pragma warning suppress 56523 SafeNativeMethods.FreeLibrary(comResDll); } } return(string.IsNullOrEmpty(machineName) || SafeCompare(machineName, "localhost") || SafeCompare(machineName, localizedMyComputerString) || SafeCompare(machineName, LocalHostName)); }