| Has anyone had any successes with Tim Golden's wmi module and | the somewhat evil Win32_GroupUser WMI object?
Well I can't say that I had, but I started to look around when you asked and there do seem to be a few caveats: 1) Win32_GroupUser is an association between Win32_Group and Win32_Account, just in case you didn't realise. 2) There's a warning here: http://support.microsoft.com/kb/302857 which suggests that it's less than optimal because of what happens behind the scenes. [But that seems to apply only to NT4 & early Win2K] | Working off a large-ish domain, I can't seem to find a form of: | | import wmi | conn = wmi.WMI () | stuff = conn.Win32_GroupUser () | | ... that doesn't enumerate the entire domain. I'm going to assume that you didn't intend the double-negative in the above. 3) I suggest that the easiest way to use it is this following: <code> import wmi c = wmi.WMI () sql_group = c.Win32_Group (Name="SQL_Adminstrators") sql_users1 = sql_group.associators (wmi_result_class="Win32_Account") # or, if you prefer sql_users2 = sql_group.associators (wmi_association_class="Win32_GroupUser") </code> But that doesn't answer your question. I ran that against my domain and returned all 15 users in that particular group, albeit after about a minute or something. I'm running it against our Domain Users group now... ... and that came back with 726 (after about 2 minutes) which, my sysadmins tell me, is about the right number. Can you post a specific bit of code, just so I can see what you're doing, and indicate how many users you're expecting to get back and how many you actually get? Thanks TJG ________________________________________________________________________ This e-mail has been scanned for all viruses by Star. The service is powered by MessageLabs. For more information on a proactive anti-virus service working around the clock, around the globe, visit: http://www.star.net.uk ________________________________________________________________________ _______________________________________________ Python-win32 mailing list Python-win32@python.org http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-win32
