Active Directory - Get CommonName from UserName

[crelf]

I can get the UserName (aSAMAccountName or otherwise) on a Windows 7 PC pretty easily (from the environment variables), but I need to get the CommonName so I can do some active directory queires - anyone know how to do this?

I've attached an example that gets the active directory groups of a user - problem is, I can't get the CommonName to input into it (eg: on my domain, my UserName is "christopher_relf" which doesn't work, my CommonName is "christopher relf" which works fine).

Get User\'s Groups.vi

[Cat]

I've attached an example that gets the active directory groups of a user - problem is, I can't get the CommonName to input into it (eg: on my domain, my UserName is "christopher_relf" which doesn't work, my CommonName is "christopher relf" which works fine).

I apologize in advance, but have to ask the obvious question: do the CommonName and UserName always follow a format where you can derive one from the other, or was that just the case in your example?

[Francois Normandin]

This command line seems to work: net group /domain <groupname>*

I tested it on my XP machine and got the full list of names, don't know if it works the same with Win7. Assuming ActiveDirectory didn't change syntax... it should.

Credits

EDIT:

Reading your question again, I guess it doesn't answer your question which is how to get CommonName from UserName... If you don't know the group, how can you get a list.

[Francois Normandin]

Perhaps you can build yourself a look-up table (not fast access) of all the users on the domain or a specific group.

Usernames&CommonNames.vi

[asbo]

It's pretty easy to get through WMI:

Set objSysInfo = CreateObject("ADSystemInfo") strUserDN = objSysInfo.UserNameSet objUser = GetObject("LDAP://" & strUserDN)Wscript.Echo objUser.cn

but I don't know a slick way of getting that information back to LabVIEW outside of writing it to temp file.

ref: http://www.windowsitpro.com/article/tips/q-how-can-my-batch-retrieve-the-common-name-of-the-current-user-.aspx

[crelf]

Perhaps you can build yourself a look-up table (not fast access) of all the users on the domain or a specific group.

Perfect - that's *exactly* what I wanted