LookupAccountName does not seem to work correctly....

[Guest]

Hi,
I am trying to get the user account information using the function
LookupAccountName supplying it the user name. This API return the user SID if
the user exists.
Now, each SID has a user SID_NAME_USE which indicates the type of the user
e.g. SidTypeUser, SidTypeDomain, SidTypeComputer etc.

If I try this function for a normal user, it returns me the SID with correct
SID_NAME_USE as SidTypeUser.
However if I try this function for a computer account, this function returns
me the SID but with an incorrect SID_NAME_USE as SidTypeUser instead of the
expected SidTypeComputer.

Is it the expected behaviour? Am I missing something? Or should I use
another API which could give me correct user account type?

I would be highly grateful if anybody could help me in this regards.
Thanks,
Tushar

 

[Cor Ligthert]

Tushar,

I don't know what you are looking for, however getting the most simple way
the username in Net is environment.username.

There are more methods by the way without using an API.

Cor

 

[Guest]

Thanks a lot for the reply Cor - much appreciated.
I basically want to identify the user account type on a domain controller
given the account name and its RID. The account then can be of a normal user
or of a computer in that domain etc.
I looked into Net API's, however I am not currently using Net API library
and using those will require me to include the Net API library only for using
a single function. Is there any other way than using Net APIs? Also any
comment on the odd(?) behavior of the LookupAccountName API?

Thanks again,
Tushar.

 

[Cor Ligthert]

Tushar

The Ldap is probably what you are looking for, there is a lot information in
this newsgroup, and otherwise the newsgroup. dotnet.general here the search
in this newsgroup for ldap

http://groups-beta.google.com/group....vb&q=ldap&qt_g=1&searchnow=Search+this+group

I hope this helps,

Cor

 

[Guest]

Thanks for this Cor