This is an interesting topic. I am having loads of issues w/ different
applications as vendors become more and more ldap compatible. It seems
back when we started w/ win2k, the adc was used to import distribution
lists w/ a leading space in the name. Apparently lots of applications
don't know to use \20 as a space.
All the native tools for AD won't allow a leading space (or trailing,
crops them both). Anyway, it was interesting for me -- here's a
snippet:
If the UTF-8 string does not have any of the following characters
which need escaping, then that string can be used as the string
representation of the value.
o a space or "#" character occurring at the beginning of the
string
o a space character occurring at the end of the string
o one of the characters ",", "+", """, "\", "<", ">" or ";"
Implementations MAY escape other characters.
If a character to be escaped is one of the list shown above, then it
is prefixed by a backslash ('\' ASCII 92).
Here's a link to the RFC: http://rfc.net/rfc2253.html ...
:m:dsm:cci:mvp marcusoh.blogspot.com
-----Original Message-----
From: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
[mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of joe
Sent: Tuesday, March 21, 2006 8:59 PM
To: [email protected]
Subject: RE: [ActiveDir] Script to find owner of home directory
1. When using slashes in a query you need to be careful of the
characters
following them. Officially you are supposed to specify all slashes that
are
part of a query as \5c. However a lot of the times you can skip that,
except
if the slash is followed by a valid HEX character 0-9 and A-F. What
happens
then is that it gets translated to a binary value and won't match on
much
most likely. In the string you specify, \19 for instance becomes EM (End
of
Medium) which is obviously not the 1973 you were expecting.
See
http://msdn.microsoft.com/library/default.asp?url=/library/en-us/adsi/ad
si/s
earch_filter_syntax.asp
2. Get ready to upgrade ADFIND, a new version will be out within a week
-
V01.31.00. HUGE changes. So huge I almost considered making it V01.50.00
because I won't do V02.00.00 until it is a major rewrite.
--
O'Reilly Active Directory Third Edition -
http://www.joeware.net/win/ad3e.htm
-----Original Message-----
From: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
[mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Steve Rochford
Sent: Tuesday, March 21, 2006 4:34 AM
To: [email protected]
Subject: [ActiveDir] Script to find owner of home directory
I know to write a script which will take a username and find that user's
home directory but can I do the reverse? What I want to to is clean up
the
home directories folders - I've got nearly 20,000 home folders but only
about 15,000 active accounts so what I want to do is take each folder
name
and ask AD who it belongs to.
I've tried using LDP with the query:
(homedirectory=\\tconwl11\home\1973)
but I get no results (but I know that I should get a result - that's my
home
folder!) and I've tried the same thing as an ADSI search in VBScript and
also get no results.
I also tried Joe's ADFind:
AdFind.exe -b dc=cnwl,dc=ac,dc=uk -f
"homedirectory=\\tconwl11\home\1973"
AdFind V01.29.00cpp Joe Richards ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) December 2005
Using server: tconwl4.cnwl.ac.uk:389
Directory: Windows 2000
0 Objects returned
Steve
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