The "\" character is a special character in LDAP query strings and must be escaped. The basic escape character in LDAP is, you guessed it, the "\" character. (There is another way to escape UTF-8 characters in LDAP, but we won't go there right now. For details, see: <http://theessentialexchange.com/blogs/michael/archive/2007/11/13/working-wi th-binary-data-guids-in-vbscript.aspx>.
So, a single "\" becomes "\\". The doubled character becomes "\\\\". There is an LDAP RFC that covers this (and Active Directory is compliant). Search at rfc-editor.org if you are interested in the gory details. From: MarvinC [mailto:marv...@gmail.com] Sent: Tuesday, February 24, 2009 9:48 PM To: NT System Admin Issues Subject: A simple yet...not so simple ?? dsquery * domainroot -filter "(&(objectCategory=Person)(objectClass=User)(homeDirectory=\\directorypath)) " -attr sAMAccountName homeDirectory > c:\temp\hdir.csv This "simple" query is suppose to write all domain users who homeDirectory path resides on a particular server. The file gets created and there are no errors but nothings' written to it. Can someone quide me on what it is I'm doing wrong? Any responses appreciated ~ Finally, powerful endpoint security that ISN'T a resource hog! ~ ~ <http://www.sunbeltsoftware.com/Business/VIPRE-Enterprise/> ~
