Sorry about posting my previous on an old thread.
Okay, here's my updated problem. Ideally I'd like to use DllImport.
However, have a look at the following two declares:
<DllImport("Netapi32")> _
Public Shared Function
NetQueryDisplayInformation(<MarshalAs(UnmanagedType.LPWStr)> ByVal
p_sServerName As String, ByVal p_iLevel As Integer, ByVal p_iIndex As
Integer, ByVal p_iEntriesRequested As Integer, ByVal
p_iPreferredMaximumLength As Integer, ByRef p_iReturnedEntryCount As
Integer, ByRef p_iBuffer As Integer) As Integer
End Function
Private Declare Function NetQueryDisplayInformation Lib "netapi32" Alias
"NetQueryDisplayInformation" (<MarshalAs(UnmanagedType.LPWStr)> ByVal
p_sServerName As String, ByVal p_iLevel As Integer, ByVal p_iIndex As
Integer, ByVal p_iEntriesRequested As Integer, ByVal
p_iPreferredMaximumLength As Integer, ByRef p_iReturnedEntryCount As
Integer, ByRef p_iBuffer As Integer) As Integer
As far as I can see they should produce the exact same results. In
reality they only do if I pass in Nothing into ServerName. If I pass
\\DOMAINCONTROLLER for example, the DllImport returns a Server Not
Available error, whereas when I call the Declared function it returns
More Data, which is correct. Why are these two returning different
results? As far as I can see they are identical.
-----Original Message-----
From: Tracy Martin [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]
Sent: 09 September 2003 09:32 PM
To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Subject: Re: [ADVANCED-DOTNET] .Net and NetCool Omnibus
At 12:13 9/9/2003, Sean Hederman wrote:
>When I run GetGroupList with Nothing in the Server Name, I get a valid
>result, however when I run it with \\MACHINENAME I get a result from
>NetQueryDisplayInformation of 1722, which is RPC server unavailable.
>Anybody got any ideas?
I have no idea why your code is failing - but your post prompted me to
write my own code to do this (minimal code, minimal testing - but it
worked with both no server name specified and a valid server name in the
form \\name). Perhaps you can use this as a starting point to find your
problem....
BTW, I know there are some things in here that are "wrong" (ie. they use
the Microsoft.VisualBasic namespace) - such as Len() - but I was in a
hurry and didn't want to go looking for the "right" way... They
shouldn't be hard to pick out and fix....
Imports System.Runtime.InteropServices
Module Module1
Structure NET_DISPLAY_GROUP
<MarshalAs(UnmanagedType.LPWStr)> _
Public grpi3_name As String
<MarshalAs(UnmanagedType.LPWStr)> _
Public grpi3_comment As String
Public grpi3_group_id As Integer
Public grpi3_attributes As Integer
Public grpi3_next_index As Integer
End Structure
Private Declare Function NetQueryDisplayInformation _
Lib "netapi32" _
(<MarshalAs(UnmanagedType.LPWStr)> _
ByVal ServerName As String, _
ByVal Level As Integer, _
ByVal Index As Integer, _
ByVal EntriesRequested As Integer, _
ByVal PreferredMaximumLength As Integer, _
ByRef ReturnedEntryCount As Integer, _
ByRef SortedBuffer As Integer) As Integer ' NET_API_STATUS
Private Declare Function NetApiBufferFree _
Lib "netapi32" _
(ByRef Buffer As Integer) As Integer ' NET_API_STATUS
Sub Main()
Dim values() As NET_DISPLAY_GROUP
values = GetInfo("\\schmoo")
MsgBox(values.Length.ToString)
End Sub
Private Function GetInfo(ByVal MachineName As String)
Dim values() As NET_DISPLAY_GROUP
Dim value As NET_DISPLAY_GROUP
Dim level As Integer
Dim index As Integer
Dim reqentries As Integer
Dim maxlen As Integer
Dim retentries As Integer
Dim buffer As Integer
Dim retval As Integer
Dim count As Integer
level = 3
reqentries = 100
maxlen = &HFFFFFFFF
retval = NetQueryDisplayInformation(MachineName, level, index,
reqentries, maxlen, retentries, buffer)
If retval > 0 Then
MsgBox(retval.ToString())
Return Nothing
End If
ReDim values(retentries - 1)
For count = 1 To retentries
value = Marshal.PtrToStructure(New IntPtr((buffer + ((count
-
1) * Len(value)))), GetType(NET_DISPLAY_GROUP))
values(count - 1) = value
Next
NetApiBufferFree(buffer)
Return values
End Function
End Module
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