You'll need to escape the backslash characters with a "\5c" (without the
quotes). Use this syntax:
"homedirectory=\5c\5ctconwl11\5chome\5c1973"
Didn't try it with LDP, but it works with ADFind...

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Charlie Kaiser
W2K3 MCSA/MCSE/Security, CCNA
Systems Engineer
Essex Credit / Brickwalk
510 595 5083
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> -----Original Message-----
> From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] 
> [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of 
> Steve Rochford
> Sent: Tuesday, March 21, 2006 1:34 AM
> To: [email protected]
> Subject: [ActiveDir] Script to find owner of home directory
> 
> I know to write a script which will take a username and find 
> that user's
> home directory but can I do the reverse? What I want to to is clean up
> the home directories folders - I've got nearly 20,000 home folders but
> only about 15,000 active accounts so what I want to do is take each
> folder name and ask AD who it belongs to.
> 
> I've tried using LDP with the query:
> 
> (homedirectory=\\tconwl11\home\1973)
> 
> but I get no results (but I know that I should get a result - 
> that's my
> home folder!) and I've tried the same thing as an ADSI search in
> VBScript and also get no results.
> 
> I also tried Joe's ADFind:
> 
> AdFind.exe -b dc=cnwl,dc=ac,dc=uk -f
> "homedirectory=\\tconwl11\home\1973"
> 
> AdFind V01.29.00cpp Joe Richards ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) December 2005
> 
> Using server: tconwl4.cnwl.ac.uk:389
> Directory: Windows 2000
> 
> 
> 0 Objects returned
> 
> Steve
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