Simple DistinguishedName question.

I need the DistinguishedName of a user account on a Windows XP system. The computer does not belong to a domain, but a workgroup, instead. What would be the DN if the following were true?:

user name: brandon
workgroup: WORKGROUP
computer name: brandoncomp

Would it be?: CN=brandon, OU=USERS, DC=brandoncomp

And (I know this doesn't really pertain to this particular forum, but) how would I set that up in C# .NET, set set a string = "CN=brandon, OU=USERS, DC=brandoncomp"?

DistinguishedName is a directory property, not an nt username property. You cannot query for a DistinguishedName on a non-domain account.

Thank you for the answer... I forgot that I posted this already. What I was looking for was this (in case this helps someone) This is C# .NET, btw:

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"WinNT://" + Environment.MachineName + "/userName"

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pretty simplistic.



But, I would like to know one other thing. How can I tell if the user account exists? Right now I can see if the .Name == userName, but that doesn't seem like a good method, plus, if you try to call .Name and the user didn't exist, a COMException is thrown.

here's my code:

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DirectoryEntry user = new DirectoryEntry("WinNT://" + Environment.MachineName + "/" + args[0]);

if (user.Name != args[0])
    // Error handling code here.

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You'll have to use WMI.

To get you started: Here is a function that will get a list of all the users. All you have to do is compare the list to the username in question, and then you'll know if it exists.

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public static void GetUsers() 
{

    SelectQuery sQuery = new SelectQuery("Win32_UserAccount", "Domain='ComputerNameHere'"); 
 
    try 
    { 
            ManagementObjectSearcher mSearcher = new ManagementObjectSearcher(sQuery); 
 
            Console.WriteLine("User Accounts\n"); 
 
            foreach (ManagementObject mObject in mSearcher.Get()) 
            { 
                Console.WriteLine(mObject["Name"]); 
//Check if user name matches here!
            } 
      } 
      catch (Exception ex) 
      { 
            Console.WriteLine(ex.ToString()); 
      } 
 
    Console.ReadKey(); 
 }

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Thank you very much. =)

Minor question: The line

Code:

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Console.WriteLine(mObject["Name"]);

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writes just fine to the console, but when I try:

Code:

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if (mObject["Name"].ToString() == userName)

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it needs the .ToString() so the types are identical... Why can it write to the console with or without the .ToString()?

ToString() is called by the .NET Framework implicitly when printing any object as a string, since every .NET Object supports the ToString() method.

i am also facing the same problem of user account on a Windows XP system, but don,t undersatnd but can i do? can you tell me more about this and how can i implement it?

please give me any proper solution of this problemem,
thanks in advance
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