RE: [ActiveDir] Determine user's Netbios/DNS Domain Name

[Dean Wells]

Title: RE: [ActiveDir] Determine user's Netbios/DNS Domain Name

ï I might be over simplifying but without testing this myself, I'd suggest the following as but one of no doubt numerous approaches -   a) Reduce the dn you have from:     CN=$Brian Desmond,OU=Tech Dept,OU=Accounts,DC=payton,DC=cps,DC=k12,DC=il,DC=us     ... to:     DC=payton,DC=cps,DC=k12,DC=il,DC=us   ... ok, forget it - just saw Joe's post ... use number 2 ... number 1 may not succeed in the case of disjoint DNS/AD namespaces.   Dean   -- Dean Wells MSEtechnology * Email: dwells@msetechnology.com http://msetechnology.com   From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Brian Desmond Sent: Sunday, August 29, 2004 7:33 PM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: RE: [ActiveDir] Determine user's Netbios/DNS Domain Name Doing this in .net. I can use a COM component if that's the only way. I was hoping there was an attribute on the user or somewhere up the tree.   Thanks, Brian   -----Original Message----- From: joe [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Sun 8/29/2004 4:33 PM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Cc: Subject: RE: [ActiveDir] Determine user's Netbios/DNS Domain Name I think you want IADsNameTranslate Brian assuming you are using ADSI. http://msdn.microsoft.com/library/default.asp?url=""> Richard has a good writeup on it at http://www.rlmueller.net/NameTranslateFAQ.htm Basically you convert from ADS_NAME_TYPE_1779 to ADS_NAME_TYPE_NT4 and then chop off the domain piece. If you are in batch, take a look at my UserName tool on www.joeware.net which will return whatever format you want for the current user.   joe -----Original Message----- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] On Behalf Of Brian Desmond Sent: Sunday, August 29, 2004 4:09 PM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: [ActiveDir] Determine user's Netbios/DNS Domain Name Is there an attribute that I can look at if I'm bound to a username to find out the user's domain name? For example, if I'm bound to myself:  CN=$Brian Desmond,OU=Tech Dept,OU=Accounts,DC=payton,DC=cps,DC=k12,DC=il,DC=us How can I programatically determine one of the two: my netbios domain name is WPCP or my DNS name is payton.cps.k12.il.us? Thanks, Brian ..jjryãv List info   : http://www.activedir.org/mail_list.htm List FAQ    : http://www.activedir.org/list_faq.htm List archive: http://www.mail-archive.com/activedir%40mail.activedir.org/