[THIN] Re: OT: VBScript/WSH/WMI question.
- From: "Braebaum, Neil" <neil.braebaum@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
- To: "'thin@xxxxxxxxxxxxx'" <thin@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
- Date: Fri, 15 Nov 2002 20:29:18 -0000
You could use much the same convention as you're currently using, and open
the accounts for the computers (filter on users, and append a '$' to the end
of the computer name - that's the convention, computer accounts end in a
'$').
So if enumerating all the user objects in the domain (using the WinNT)
provider, then only opening / accessing objects with a '$' at the end, then
you can parse the userflags, could probably be useable.
However, you / your script actually accessed the computer object, and you
mentioned that this wasn't necessarily the full script, so you may /
probably have call to access properties of the computer object, which
probably (almost certainly) won't be available through the user object (they
are different objects, but from a scripting perspective, tend to be
overlooked).
I guess it really depends on what else the script needs to do, once it's
enumerated the correct computer objects.
However, I still feel you have some underlying problem - because I can't
think of any obvious reason why the PDC shouldn't enumerate using your
current method - you may not be able to currently distinguish it, but I
think it should evaluate just like any other computer object.
Neil
> -----Original Message-----
> From: Chris Lynch [mailto:lynch00@xxxxxxx]
> Sent: 15 November 2002 20:17
> To: thin@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
> Subject: [THIN] Re: OT: VBScript/WSH/WMI question.
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> Ok, so then how would I script this? Would I use what Larry
> posted, or = do you have a better way Neil?
>
> Thanks,
>
> Chris Lynch, MCSE CCNA CCA
> Network Engineer
> Axcent Solutions
> clynch@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
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> - -----Original Message-----
> From: thin-bounce@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
> [mailto:thin-bounce@xxxxxxxxxxxxx] On = Behalf Of Nail, Larry
> Sent: Friday, November 15, 2002 10:15 AM
> To: 'thin@xxxxxxxxxxxxx'
> Subject: [THIN] Re: OT: VBScript/WSH/WMI question.
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> OK, That's why I'm a scripter & not a programmer... I have
> to learn = things the hard way... Thanks for the education!
>
> Larry
>
> - -----Original Message-----
> From: Braebaum, Neil
> [mailto:neil.braebaum@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx]=20
> Sent: Friday, November 15, 2002 11:38 AM
> To: 'thin@xxxxxxxxxxxxx'
> Subject: [THIN] Re: OT: VBScript/WSH/WMI question.
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> > -----Original Message-----
> > From: Nail, Larry [mailto:lnail@xxxxxx]
> > Sent: 15 November 2002 16:39
> > To: 'thin@xxxxxxxxxxxxx'
> > Subject: [THIN] Re: OT: VBScript/WSH/WMI question.
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> > Neil,
> >=20
> > A computer account is just a user account with a $ appended to it.
>
> I know - that's why I wrote:-
>
> "Presumably they are accessible, when actually opening the=20
> *user* account object for the computer in the same - but=20
> that's not what's being accessed / filtered here."
>
> I actually script the creation of computer accounts / objects
> in AD, and = I use the computer account, in scripts, plus the
> nametranslate object, = so that I don't have to search AD for
> the computer object (ie I can = 'zip' straight to it)
>
> I only pointed this out, because it's an attribute of the
> *user* object = (ie the actual account, as opposed to the
> computer object), and Chris's = script uses a filter on
> *computer* objects, when evaluating the = computers within the domain.
>
> Neil
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