On Wed, Apr 29, 2015 at 4:04 PM, Michael B. Smith <[email protected]> wrote: > Parameter substitution is the debil. > > Try this: > > adfind -f "(homeDirectory=\\<server>\users\BookBagAdmin)"
I had tried that, didn't work. I did eventually get it to work using the "\5c" substitution of the "\" character. Dunno why it didn't work the first time I tried it, but eventually I was able to get it to match. Reduced my list of "orphaned" home folders by 4, too, as now I was able to find a profile matching the on-disk folder name, and find a valid, active user to associate it with. Had to have been my error, as I suspected all along. :-) > > -----Original Message----- > From: [email protected] [mailto:[email protected]] > On Behalf Of Michael Leone > Sent: Wednesday, April 29, 2015 3:20 PM > To: [email protected]; ActiveDir Mailing List > Subject: [NTSysADM] Re: ADfind doesn't seem to find by homeDirectory for some > users > > I even found a list post where I asked this same question, almost 4 years > ago. :-) But the answer then isn't working. > > Escape characters, that's the ticket! Except, in this case, it isn't ... > > If I replace each "\" with "\5c" instead, the search fails with > ldap_get_next_page_s: [<someDC>] Error 0x20 (32) - No Such Object > > So the escaping didn't help, this time ... > > > On Wed, Apr 29, 2015 at 3:04 PM, Michael Leone <[email protected]> wrote: >> Hoping somebody can tell me what I am missing here. ADfind search for >> one of my generic logins: >> >> P:\utils>adfind -f samaccountname=laptopuser >> >> AdFind V01.49.00.00cpp Joe Richards ([email protected]) February 2015 >> >> Using server: <someDC> >> Directory: Windows Server 2008 R2 >> Base DN: DC=<this, that and the other> >> >> dn:CN=Laptop User.... >>>homeDirectory: \\<server>\users\BookBagAdmin >> >> Yet, when I search for a homeDirectory that matches, it fails: >> >> P:\utils>adfind -f homeDirectory=\\<server>\users\BookBagAdmin >> >> AdFind V01.49.00.00cpp Joe Richards ([email protected]) February 2015 >> >> Using server: <someDC> >> Directory: Windows Server 2008 R2 >> Base DN: <this, that and the other> >> >> >> 0 Objects returned >> >> >> So how come the 2nd search failed, if I am filtering for an attribute >> that was returned by the first search? I've done lots of searches this >> way, without fail. >> >> Yet for some reason, I can't search for this one particular homeDirectory. >> >> Clues as to why? It's gotta be me misunderstanding something ... > >
