[ActiveDir] GC Provider

[Brian Desmond]

OK, what do I need to do in my code to simply query the global catalog for the entire forest?   I have New DirectoryEntry("GC://")   That seems not to work. If I inspect it   ?searchroot {System.DirectoryServices.DirectoryEntry}     AuthenticationType: Secure {1}     Children: {System.DirectoryServices.DirectoryEntries}     Container: Nothing     Guid: {"Unknown error (0x80005000)"}     Name: {"Unknown error (0x80005000)"}     NativeGuid: {"Unknown error (0x80005000)"}     NativeObject: {"Unknown error (0x80005000)"}     ObjectSecurity: {"Unknown error (0x80005000)"}     Options: {"Unknown error (0x80005000)"}     Parent: {"Unknown error (0x80005000)"}     Path: "GC://"     Properties: {System.DirectoryServices.PropertyCollection}     SchemaClassName: {"Unknown error (0x80005000)"}     SchemaEntry: {"Unknown error (0x80005000)"}     Site: Nothing     UsePropertyCache: True     Username: Nothing   We learn that it’s more or less null, lots of unknown COM Errors. I’m running this code as myself – I have Domain Admin an Enterprise Admin groups in my token, I had thought there was some reason something like Network Service couldn’t do this, but, that has obviously been ruled out. GC://mydomain.com works fine, but then I don’t get the stuff in GC://otherdomain.com which is in my forest. This is supposed to work … and it doesn’t. Ideas?   Thanks, Brian Desmond [EMAIL PROTECTED]   c - 312.731.3132