i am looking for information on how to get the current active directory users name? Basically i have a recording package program and some of the users have expressed the want to have it track who is entering which notes. So when a note is saved the program will take a look at who is currently logged into the computer and save it to the database. I have found how to do this for mac address, computer name and ip address but have not found anything yet for getting current logged on user.
I have a function that works perfectly when I attempt to add a user from the same domain into a group of the same domain.
Function AddUserToGroup(ByVal strUserDN As String, ByVal strGroupDN As String, ByVal strGRPDC As String, ByVal strUserDC As String) As Boolean Dim oUser As DirectoryEntry
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The error is actually being thrown on the Invoke line, but as I said earlier, if the user is in the same domain, this works perfectly.
i am trying to display the current domain name on my VB app. When a system running the VB app is connected to AD domain controller, it works fine..but when i run this VB when not connected to the domain, it crashes with error below. all i want to do is if appication cannot talk to a domain controller, display an error message."An error occurred creating the form. See Exception.InnerException for details. The error is: The specified domain either does not exist or could not be contacted."
--------------- Dim RootDSE As New DirectoryServices.DirectoryEntry("LDAP://RootDSE") Dim DomainDistinguishedName As String = RootDSE.Properties("DefaultNamingContext").Value
I had a for a program that would grab the current url and display it in like a label or something on my VB project. I have no idea how I'd go about doing this. The thing I'd like to do is simple, but I just don't understand how...For example:
1) Click a command button on my VB Project
2) Say I'm currently on [URL] it grabs this url and places it on my VB project.
I know that using Dim currUser As String = Request.ServerVariables("LOGON_USER") retunrs the DomainUsername, but I want to know what Group that user is in say in Active Directory.
I use a simple application on a client in our domain. When i open the application as admin-user all works fine.When a domain-user with no special rights open the application theres is the following error message[code]...
I have a users domain and user id. I would like to retrieve the full user name. The data is coming from a SQL table for display onto an asp.net page. Anyone know how to get the users name for someone other then the user who is using the asp.net application?
I am writting an application in VB 2008. The application will reside on a 'Manufacturing Workstaion'. The workstation is assigned a user ID of Prodxx. Once the workstation is booted up and the application is running the 'Operator" must login to the application. The users who login to the app must have a valid account on the domain. I need to validate the individual users against the domain security. Many Users will login and logout during the day.
How do I search all the user accounts in a domain in .NET? Not the computer names in the domain, but the user accounts, that's what you are using to log on Windows.
I have a question. I'm deploying my VB app that performs some task VIA SCCM. The application is run with the NTAuthoritySystem account.
I would like to copy a log file to a server all domain users/computer can right to this folder. I'm trying to get a log copied to the server but since it's running as the system account it can't authenticate to the share to save the log file on XP machines.
Can somebody show me example code of how to save a file as a different user when running the program with the system account . Would this be secure to use a domain account to impersonate and save the file?
we have a script which we use here to output a list of all the groups a user belongs to (for records before deletion) and it works fine for the first domain, but any sub domain are not searched. (due to "LDAP://rootDSE" I think)here is our current script
On Error Resume Next Const ForWriting = 2 UserName = InputBox("Enter Username","Enter Username")
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I want the script to search through all domains and sub-domains it can find until it finds the user, or runs out of domains to search. Once found, it then dumps the groups to a file (like it does now)
I am putting together an old post here with this new one. My main goal is to combine these two portions so that the search does not need to be ran on each and every computer.
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I can set the path as WinNT://domain.name/username...and I get a list of something, are they files? i am not sure? Second portion of code searches the computer for the java.exe to display its version, as well as searching for any indication of a java file on that computer.
I need my program to add all users selected in a checkedlist box to the local administrators group.I will be logged in as a domain admin when doing this , if soeone tries to run this without permissions it should prompt them for domain admin creds[code]...
I'm in the process of writing a script for use in our lab. I need it to remotely add a domain user to the local group "Remote Desktop Users" on some remote desktop servers we use to bridge two subnets. The person adding the user would have admin rights for that remote server. I would use GPO, but we don't control the domain and it'd be damned near impossible to convince IT to set aside a OU for us with just those machines. I've been looking at using WMI in the script I've been working on but I haven't got the slightest clue how I'd implement it.
I am able to find out when is the last time a user log into a domain but I am also wondering if it is possible to find out what's the machine's name or IP.
In my Active Directory, I see there is an attribute called logonWorkstation but it seems not being used (no value stored)
I have computers joined to a domain. I'm writing a desktop application that ask for a username and password to authenticate user against Active Directory.Sometimes, user uses this application on the computer that is not joined to the domain.I'm using .NET 3.5, System.DirectoryServices, and System.DirectoryServices.AccountManagement. Code sample how to authenticate users:
Private Function ValidateExternalUser(ByVal username As String, ByVal password As String) As Boolean Using context As PrincipalContext = New PrincipalContext(ContextType.Domain, "your_domain_here") Return context.ValidateCredentials(username, password, ContextOptions.Negotiate)
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I want to know how to check if user is already logged in on domain computer, then I don't have to ask them log into the application again.
Update:If it can't be done with System.DirectoryServices.AccountManagemen, is there any way to do it?
I have a piece of business-soft to make the lives of our employees easier. It's fairly typical, a tabbed-MDI style main form with a load of buttons that activate each of its sub-modules.
I have security set up on it so that someone in sales can't enter the module for purchasing, etc... I authenticate the user by having them type in their network password and check it against the AD server with this function:
'Remember to Imports System.DirectoryServices for this to work Private Function ValidateActiveDirectoryLogin(ByVal Domain As String, ByVal Username As String, ByVal Password As String) As Boolean
How to know that if the current user is an administrator or normal user or guest? And how to make the exe can just only run in administrator?
I have tried to set the .manifest to "<requestedExecutionLevel level="requireAdministrator" uiAccess="false" />", but no use. Although I am not logged in as admin, I can still run the exe.
In my application I have a several type of user could be log in. My purpose is to have a restriction with other menu to show on or off. In php I used a session to handle that user id. In vb.net how can assign user id and retrieve anytime I need it in every user that has been logged in, so that I can check the user type and do some action.
Does anyone know how this can be done? The problem is that when you run the script to add a domain user to the local group as a local user you have no permissions to query the domain. Is there a way to pass a user name and password when doing this? [code]...
I have tried multiple ways of grabbing the username of a current logged on user in vb.net/asp.net. I am running it on IIS 6 and understand that it will return NETWORK SERVICE for the username. I need to grab the username of the actual windows box log on.I have tried the following code: Returns NT AUTHORITYNETWORK SERVICE
Dim User = System.Security.Principal.WindowsIdentity.GetCurrent.User Dim UserName = User.Translate(GetType(System.Security.Principal.NTAccount)).Value
im using membership of asp.net to manage user and roles in my vb.net winform application when logged in i wanna get the current user in a specific form
i use that code
nom = TextBox1.Text Dim user As MembershipUser = Membership.GetUser(nom) Dim identity As New GenericIdentity(user.UserName)
I have a code that works fine to get all users but when I just want the one user it will not except the code it dose not give any errors but nothering will happen in the code you can use more that one agument so this is what i need help with in command prompt if you type net user %username% it will give me my current user account information which is what i am trying to get in my program [code]
i have a couple of questions 1- i have a button when the user click on it the current row in the DGV will be deselected and the next row will be selected.(i know that there is this option in the binding navigator but i need to do it manually.) so how can i do that?
2- i need to make a the first column (unselected) all the time i mean if i click it or moved to it the selection will move to the next column.
