I call adduser from coldfusion using the CFEXECUTE tag. Cool thing about this is that it returns error codes that can be trapped. I would highly recommend this method over accessing the registry directly.
Evans Martin http://www.martekware.com ----- Original Message ----- From: "Keif Gwinn" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Cc: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Sent: Tuesday, May 07, 2002 9:22 AM Subject: Re: [IMail Forum] centralized automated user creation (imail registry) > Hi, > > > I'm using the Imail internal registry (I don't want to switch to > > an external database, so please don't suggest that). > > > > I want to automate creating users by spawning the adduser.exe > > utility from an ASP script. > > I wouldn't do that... I'd just access the registry direct to put in the > users/domains ... we've written a COM object that handles all of that, but > I'm afraid we can't share. > > > I would like to do this on a centralized "administrative server". I'm > > not sure how to programmatically run commandline utilities on > > another server? > > You can setup helper web services on each of the machines that actually > run the script, and get the centralised server to talk to the remote > servers to run it, XML like you said is a handy transport mechanism for > the information you need. > > > The mail server is not runinng .Net (in the future, I'd do it as an XML > > dot Net web service, but not ready for that yet.) > > MSXML 4 and ASP3 make it really easy anyway to use XML as a control > mechanism without .Net > > Keif Gwinn > > IARNA, a Hostway Company > scotts sufferance wharf > 1 mill street. london. se1 > united kingdom > t/ +44 207 231 7766 > f/ +44 207 231 2327 > www.iarna.co.uk > > Please visit http://www.ipswitch.com/support/mailing-lists.html > to be removed from this list. > > An Archive of this list is available at: > http://www.mail-archive.com/imail_forum%40list.ipswitch.com/ > > Please visit the Knowledge Base for answers to frequently asked > questions: http://www.ipswitch.com/support/IMail/ > Please visit http://www.ipswitch.com/support/mailing-lists.html to be removed from this list. An Archive of this list is available at: http://www.mail-archive.com/imail_forum%40list.ipswitch.com/ Please visit the Knowledge Base for answers to frequently asked questions: http://www.ipswitch.com/support/IMail/
