I'll give this a try. Thanks
On Tue, Feb 24, 2009 at 10:07 PM, Michael B. Smith < [email protected]> wrote: > The “\” character is a special character in LDAP query strings and must > be escaped. The basic escape character in LDAP is, you guessed it, the “\” > character. (There is another way to escape UTF-8 characters in LDAP, but we > won’t go there right now. For details, see: < > http://theessentialexchange.com/blogs/michael/archive/2007/11/13/working-with-binary-data-guids-in-vbscript.aspx > >. > > > > So, a single “\” becomes “\\”. The doubled character becomes “\\\\”. > > > > There is an LDAP RFC that covers this (and Active Directory is compliant). > Search at rfc-editor.org if you are interested in the gory details. > > > > *From:* MarvinC [mailto:[email protected]] > *Sent:* Tuesday, February 24, 2009 9:48 PM > *To:* NT System Admin Issues > *Subject:* A simple yet...not so simple ?? > > > > dsquery * domainroot -filter > "(&(objectCategory=Person)(objectClass=User)(homeDirectory=\\directorypath))" > -attr sAMAccountName homeDirectory > c:\temp\hdir.csv > > > > This "simple" query is suppose to write all domain users who homeDirectory > path resides on a particular server. The file gets created and there are no > errors but nothings' written to it. Can someone quide me on what it is I'm > doing wrong? > > > > Any responses appreciated > > > > > > > > > > > ~ Finally, powerful endpoint security that ISN'T a resource hog! ~ ~ <http://www.sunbeltsoftware.com/Business/VIPRE-Enterprise/> ~
