RE: [ActiveDir] LDAP'ing a computer object in AD

[Rick Kingslan]

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I'm glad that I was finally able to show you something - given everything that you've taught me over the years.  I find it interesting, however, that you had to add the Enterprise Admins group at the forest level.  I did find that adding the Domain Users to the Schema was helpful, it now takes away that annoying problem where I have to create schema entries for all of the apps that they write.  Now, they are free to do it themselves.   I guess that I'm going to have to study the ACLs at the forest level and determine the E-A issue.  I'm not sure why that's happening, but there has to be a rational solution.   I'll let you know what I find.   Rick Kingslan  MCSE, MCSA, MCT Microsoft MVP - Active Directory Associate Expert Expert Zone - www.microsoft.com/windowsxp/expertzone   From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Joe Sent: Saturday, October 18, 2003 4:30 PM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: RE: [ActiveDir] LDAP'ing a computer object in AD I've found that if I add Domain Users to the Schema and Enterprise Admins groups of my forest, it seems to work. You also have to be careful to only use NULL for any SD references. Thanks for the help!     joe From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Rick Kingslan Sent: Saturday, October 18, 2003 5:06 PM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Joe - Yep..... I'm sure.   You're sure you're using the release version,and not one of the betas?    This method was added very late in the process, right about the same time that the class 'Yada:' was added, along with the function 'whatever (var middle-finger, str [EMAIL PROTECTED] you)'.   Try adding all hotfixes, SP's, any updates to the Framework.  If that doesn't work - just give up.  That's what most developers would do anyway.   ;P   Rick Kingslan  MCSE, MCSA, MCT Microsoft MVP - Active Directory Associate Expert Expert Zone - www.microsoft.com/windowsxp/expertzone   From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Joe Sent: Saturday, October 18, 2003 9:28 AM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: RE: [ActiveDir] LDAP'ing a computer object in AD Rick I am getting unknown identifier when I try that. What am I doing wrong?          joe From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Kingslan, Rick T. Sent: Friday, October 17, 2003 9:26 AM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] 'blah, blah, blah' was added as a new method in VB.Net in Visual Studio .Net 2003.  It should compile just fine.  The default behavior is to simply not work at all.   ;oD   Rick Kingslan  MCSE, MCSA, MCT Microsoft MVP - Active Directory LAN Administration - Windows 2000 West Corporation [EMAIL PROTECTED] -----Original Message----- From: Pennell, Ronald B. [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Friday, October 17, 2003 7:54 AM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: RE: [ActiveDir] LDAP'ing a computer object in AD How can I take your code and save as an executable script?   Ron   -----Original Message----- From: Michael B. Smith [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Friday, October 17, 2003 8:34 AM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: RE: [ActiveDir] LDAP'ing a computer object in AD   compname = InputBox ("Enter name of computer", "GetComputerName", "mycomputername") domname  = InputBox ("Enter name of domain", "GetDomainName", "myhostname") blah blah blah   From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Friday, October 17, 2003 8:21 AM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: RE: [ActiveDir] LDAP'ing a computer object in AD Anyway to make screen pops asking for compname and domname?     Shawn -----Original Message----- From: Frederic Allaert [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Friday, October 17, 2003 3:17 AM To: '[EMAIL PROTECTED]' Subject: RE: [ActiveDir] LDAP'ing a computer object in AD OK, I figured it out using your tip on the SAM account:   Dim compname Dim domname compname = "MYHOSTNAME" domname = "MYDOMAIN"   Set Set oTrans = CreateObject("NameTranslate") oTrans.Init 1, domname oTrans.Set 3, domname &"\"& compname &"$" sAdsPath = oTrans.Get(1) Set >Set oTrans = Nothing wscript.echo "LDAP path: " & sAdsPath Thanks & greetings,   Frederic Allaert System Engineer Johnson Pump AB -----Original Message----- From: Ken Cornetet [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Thursday, October 16, 2003 3:55 PM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: RE: [ActiveDir] LDAP'ing a computer object in AD I think this is what you want. Search for samaccountname=computername$ (append a "$" to the computer name). -----Original Message----- From: Frederic Allaert [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Thursday, October 16, 2003 8:50 AM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: [ActiveDir] LDAP'ing a computer object in AD Hello all, I have been searching some good, clear examples how to determine the LDAP path for a computer object, (without knowing the "location" in AD), with the only input being the hostname of the computer, and the DNS-name for the domain. All this using a .VBS-script... Can someone produce such an example, or direct me to some good resource websites on this topic? Greetings, Frederic Allaert