Hi,
I have the DN of a user in Active Directory, I want to get the "NT style" domain\user from this. The sAMAccountname AD property gives me the user part, but what about the domain?
Thanks
A:
How about using --> System.Security.Principal.NTAccount.ToString()
See msdn info about it here: NTAccount.ToString()
This should return a string in the format of domain\user... is this what you are after?
Xander
2009-11-25 11:56:01
A:
You can get it by taking the last part of the user DN (DC=domain,DC=local) and adding CN=Partitions,CN=Configuration, before.
Then do a subtree search for (&(nCName="DC=domain,DC=local")(nETBIOSName=*)) with CN=Partitions, CN=Configuration, DC=domain, DC=local as the starting point; the entry you get back will have the NETBIOS name of the domain in the nETBIOSName-attribute.
Per Noalt
2009-11-25 12:22:34
Thanks, that looks good. However, I am guaranteed to only get ONE value for this search?
Henrik
2009-12-06 12:56:17
If you have multiple domains in your forrest, you'll need to include the domain you're after in your search; I've modified my reply to take this into account.
Per Noalt
2009-12-07 08:13:59
A:
The easiest way to do this conversion is through the DsCrackNames API. You specify the input format and output format and it does the conversion for you.
Michael Thorp
2009-12-03 21:33:52