Ok, I'm not sure if this thing's haunted or what, but just FYI to this thread... I went to show a coleague the problem I was having and it was gone. The only change I had made was to seperate my AD access methods into their own class and assigning the the value to a public string variable in that class. Which seemingly wouldn't make any difference. I can now retrieve the department field using the exact same syntax. Go Figure...
<>< Ryan -----Original Message----- From: Robert Chartier [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Sent: Wednesday, August 07, 2002 4:24 PM To: dotnet Subject: RE: C# - System.DirectoryServices - Searching my experiences with System.DirectoryServices lead up to the conclusion...... dont use it. its a very poor COM interop hack job. create whatever you need in vb or other, and then do your own com interop Scorecard: 8637 types FOR framework 60 types AGAINST framework (All types within System.DirectoryServices) At 04:07 PM 8/7/2002 -0600, you wrote: >Well this figures... > >[NotImplementedException: Handling of this ADSVALUE type is not yet >implemented (type = 0xb).] > System.DirectoryServices.ResultPropertyValueCollection.get_Item(Int32 > index) +111 > myFile.Page_Load(Object sender, EventArgs e) in myFile.aspx.cs:46 > System.Web.UI.Control.OnLoad(EventArgs e) +67 > System.Web.UI.Control.LoadRecursive() +29 > System.Web.UI.Page.ProcessRequestMain() +724 > >... I do care about the department value. So what does this mean, I sit >around and wait until Microsoft Supports it? Geesh... it's kind of ironic >that PHP, written by a bunch of linux people, can pull the value fine, but >.NET DirectoryServices, a Microsoft Developement, cannot? > >Anyway, I found reference to this that mentions a way to make it work.... >one word... kludge. > >Hopefully this is a helpful thread to someone. Even if it is a monologue. > ><>< Ryan > > > > >-----Original Message----- >From: Ryan Jameson (USA) >Sent: Wednesday, August 07, 2002 3:18 PM >To: dotnet >Subject: RE: C# - System.DirectoryServices - Searching > > >Finally, I figured out that the problem occurs at this point, after the >actual search is a sucess: > >// retVal = retVal + "\n" + resEnt.GetDirectoryEntry().Name.ToString(); >retVal = retVal + "\n" + resEnt.GetDirectoryEntry().Path.ToString(); >//retVal = retVal + "\n" + resEnt.GetDirectoryEntry().NativeGuid.ToString(); > > >If I uncomment either of the two lines above I will get the error below. >No matter though, I have my object now and I don't care about the Name or >Guid... thankfully. > ><>< Ryan > > >-----Original Message----- >From: Ryan Jameson (USA) >Sent: Wednesday, August 07, 2002 2:45 PM >To: dotnet >Subject: RE: C# - System.DirectoryServices - Searching > > >FYI.... > >The continued saga: (The majority of documentation seems to say the >following is the correct way)... > >DirectoryEntry entry = new >DirectoryEntry("LDAP://myADServer/CN=Users,DC=myOrg,DC=org";); >System.DirectoryServices.DirectorySearcher mySearcher = new >System.DirectoryServices.DirectorySearcher(entry); > >mySearcher.Filter = ("(samaccountname=rjameson)"); > > >Kaboom! ---- > >[COMException (0x80005000): Unknown error (0x80005000)] > System.DirectoryServices.DirectoryEntry.Bind(Boolean throwIfFail) +514 > System.DirectoryServices.DirectoryEntry.Bind() +10 > System.DirectoryServices.DirectoryEntry.get_AdsObject() +10 > System.DirectoryServices.DirectorySearcher.FindAll(Boolean > findMoreThanOne) +199 > System.DirectoryServices.DirectorySearcher.FindAll() +10 > webAppsDotNet.adServices.directorySearch() in > c:\webdev\webappsdotnet\directoryservices.cs:28 > webAppsDotNet.doTheWork.Page_Load(Object sender, EventArgs e) in > c:\webdev\webappsdotnet\dothework.aspx.cs:35 > System.Web.UI.Control.OnLoad(EventArgs e) +67 > System.Web.UI.Control.LoadRecursive() +29 > System.Web.UI.Page.ProcessRequestMain() +724 > > >My LDAP lookups work great in PHP. I'm honestly trying to unbiasedly >decide if .NET can serve us better. After almost 3 hours and finding >nothing more than an "Unknown error" when it took me about 20 minutes to >completely implement extracting user data from the active directory in >PHP... I really want to see this work! > > > >-----Original Message----- >From: Ryan Jameson (USA) >Sent: Wednesday, August 07, 2002 1:57 PM >To: dotnet >Subject: C# - System.DirectoryServices - Searching > > >Can someone tell me why doesn't the code below find the object who's >samaccountname property = rjameson? >It works fine with this: mySearcher.Filter = ("(objectClass=*)"); > >----------------------------- > >DirectoryEntry entry = new DirectoryEntry("LDAP://myADServer";); >System.DirectoryServices.DirectorySearcher mySearcher = new >System.DirectoryServices.DirectorySearcher(entry); > >mySearcher.Filter = ("(samaccountname=rjameson)"); > >----------------------------- > >Also, once I get the object back, how do I get the more obscure properties >from it. Like sn, and such. > >Thanks. ><>< Ryan > >--- >You are currently subscribed to dotnet as: [EMAIL PROTECTED] >To unsubscribe send a blank email to %%email.unsub%% > >--------- >Administrated by 15 Seconds : http://www.15Seconds.com >List Archives/Search : http://local.15Seconds.com/search >Subscription Information : http://www.15seconds.com/listserv.htm >Advertising Information: http://www.internet.com/mediakit/ > > > >--- >You are currently subscribed to dotnet as: [EMAIL PROTECTED] >To unsubscribe send a blank email to %%email.unsub%% > >--------- >Administrated by 15 Seconds : http://www.15Seconds.com >List Archives/Search : http://local.15Seconds.com/search >Subscription Information : http://www.15seconds.com/listserv.htm >Advertising Information: http://www.internet.com/mediakit/ > > > >--- >You are currently subscribed to dotnet as: [EMAIL PROTECTED] >To unsubscribe send a blank email to %%email.unsub%% > >--------- >Administrated by 15 Seconds : http://www.15Seconds.com >List Archives/Search : http://local.15Seconds.com/search >Subscription Information : http://www.15seconds.com/listserv.htm >Advertising Information: http://www.internet.com/mediakit/ > > > >--- >You are currently subscribed to dotnet as: [EMAIL PROTECTED] >To unsubscribe send a blank email to %%email.unsub%% > >--------- >Administrated by 15 Seconds : http://www.15Seconds.com >List Archives/Search : http://local.15Seconds.com/search >Subscription Information : http://www.15seconds.com/listserv.htm >Advertising Information: http://www.internet.com/mediakit/ Robert Chartier Author and Developer 604-975-5590 [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.aspalliance.com/nothingmn/ --- You are currently subscribed to dotnet as: [EMAIL PROTECTED] To unsubscribe send a blank email to %%email.unsub%% --------- Administrated by 15 Seconds : http://www.15Seconds.com List Archives/Search : http://local.15Seconds.com/search Subscription Information : http://www.15seconds.com/listserv.htm Advertising Information: http://www.internet.com/mediakit/ --- You are currently subscribed to dotnet as: [email protected] To unsubscribe send a blank email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] --------- Administrated by 15 Seconds : http://www.15Seconds.com List Archives/Search : http://local.15Seconds.com/search Subscription Information : http://www.15seconds.com/listserv.htm Advertising Information: http://www.internet.com/mediakit/
