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From where the DirectoryEntry class of c# fetches data?

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Best way to quickly determine whether a user account is a member of an AD group?

I currently have some code that pulls down a list of users in a group and then iterates through that group to determine if a given account exists, but it seems like there ought to be a more concise (and perhaps faster) way to accomplish this. This code (VB.NET) attempts to use the member property of the group object, but it is returning...

Reading ldap group member from c#

Hi I have this code to connect to Active Directory and get all the groups that exist, it works and returns all the groups in results : DirectoryEntry dirEnt = new DirectoryEntry(); using (DirectorySearcher srch = new DirectorySearcher(dirEnt, "(objectClass=Group)")) { srch.PageSize = 1000; S...

"new DirectoryEntry(distinguishedName as string)" doesn't work when DN contains a "/"

I have the following code to convert a distinguishedName to a sAMAccountName: Dim de As New DirectoryEntry("LDAP://" & stringDN) Return CType(de.Properties("samaccountname")(0), String) It works great for every DN I pass it, except for one. We have an AD group on our domain that has a "/" in it - call it "Programmers/DBAs". The DN for...

IIS website size using DirectoryEntry

Hello, I am using the following code to loop through my websites in IIS: DirectoryEntry root = new DirectoryEntry("IIS://localhost/W3SVC"); foreach (DirectoryEntry directory in root.Children) { if (directory.SchemaClassName.Equals("IIsWebServer")) { // ... } } What I would like to do is use the available information ...

The user credentials supplied to the DirectoryEntry constructor are being ignored. What am I doing wrong

Hi. I have a really simple piece of code that creates a DirectoryEntry object which is attached to a w3svc object on a remote server. The C# code I have is as follows (NOTE: The code runs inside a windows WPF form) public static W3SvcWrapper CreateW3Svc(string machineName, string username...

How to know if my DirectoryEntry is really connected to my LDAP directory ?

I'm connecting to a LDAP directory in C#, so I've used the DirectoryEntry class. When you do the "new DirectoryEntry" with address, login, and password it is supposed to connect to the LDAP directory. However, even if the connection didn't work, it returns without problem, and the directoryentry variable is set. So i do i know my conn...

Problem getting Users from ActiveDirectory [C# in ASP.NET]

Cannot get the user list from ACtiveDirectory Services when accessed from another system in the same network. If accessed from where the code is, then we can obtain the userlist, but cannot get it when accessed from other system in the same network. Any help is utmost appreciated... Thanks, Venkat. ...

How to change System.DirectoryEntry "uSNChanged" attribute value to an Int64

I'm trying to get the Int64 value of a Directory Services object's "uSNChanged" value. Unfortunately, it is always coming back as a COM object of some kind. I've tried using casting to Int64, calling Int64.Parse(), and calling Convert.ToInt64(). None of these work. For a given DirectoryEntry object, this code will display the properties...

C# DirectoryEntry Error?

I have a Web setup project. In the setup I have an input field where the user can insert a connectionstring. When I run the setup I get this error: Error 1001. Unknown error (0x8000x5000) To track where the error exists I create a file and in every method I write something to this file. Now I think the error is raised by this line: st...

Work with DirectoryEntry not on a Domain, set user password never expire

Hello i try to put the user password check to never expire. When i create the user, the check is always uncheck. I try many twist to execute that but noting work. There is my code. DirectoryEntry user = root.Children.Add(adUserName, "user"); // NOTE(cboivin): Documentation : http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/aa746340(VS...

Creating folders using DirectoryEntry

I am writing an ASP.NET (C#) application to create users for my domain. It also has to create folders and shares on a separate file server. I have so far been able to accomplish my task using System.IO.Directory.CreateDirectory to create the folders, a ("WinNT://fileserver/lanmanserver") DirectoryEntry to create the shares. Unfortu...

Enumerate Windows user group members on remote system using vb.net

I am trying to do the same thing in vb.net as the op in this post see below but I would like to do it using System.directoryservices method just like he mentioned later in the post. i don't see why i can't since I am able to add a user to the admin group using DS method. ex. Public Shared Sub AddAdminAccount(ByVal username As Str...

C# - is there a way to get the local path of the Default FTP site?

Hi, Is there a way to get the local path of the Default FTP site (in IIS) programmatically? Like C:\program files\ftproot, shown below: I'd imagine it would be something like: DirectoryEntry ftproot = new DirectoryEntry("IIS://localhost/MSFTPSVC/1/Root"); string directory; // = ftproot.something Any ideas? Edit: This would be f...

LDAP Invalid DN Syntax

string path = "LDAP://192.168.0.20/CN=users,DC=company,DC=ltm,DC=dom"; DirectoryEntry dir = new DirectoryEntry(path, admin, pass, AuthenticationTypes.ServerBind); object value = dir.Properties["description"].Value; dir.Properties["description"].Value = "test"; dir.CommitChanges(); The code generates a COMException : "Invalid DN synta...

Whats the name of the "." and ".." entries in a directory listing?

I need a name for them both together. Do they have one? I want to build a strip"DOT_AND_DOTDOT"() function that gets rid of them ... ...

DirectoryEntry Timeout

I am having an issue with the DirectoryEntry object where it's taking a long time trying to connect to to a dead AD server and eventually failing. Is it possible to set a timeout so that if its not able to connect within a specific time, it just comes out to try the next one? ...

Local active directory access and management for development?

Hi everybody, In an application we are developpment, we are accessing Active Directory users and groups using the .Net DirectoryEntry and DirectorySearcher classes. Managing the test groups and users during development is getting tedious. I am wondering if there was an easy way to setup a simple local AD in which we could easily create...

How to get a list of all domains?

I'm trying to get all domains that are available in the Windows Login dialog (in the Domain dropdown). I've tried the following code but it only returns the domain I am logged into. Am I missing something? StringCollection domainList = new StringCollection(); try { DirectoryEntry en = new DirectoryEntry(); // Search for objec...

Active Directory login - DirectoryEntry inconsistent exception

I need to validate the LDAP user by checking if there exists such a user name in the specified domain. For this I am using this code - DirectoryEntry entry = new DirectoryEntry("LDAP://" + strDomainController); DirectorySearcher searcher = new DirectorySearcher(entry); searcher.Filter = "SAMAccountName=" + strUserName; SearchResult res...