Detecting domain/user/computer through VPN tunnel/connection 1

[EgilHansen]

Hi

The logon script we use at work works great when users are at the office. But when at home and connected to our network through a VPN tunnel (Netscreen Remote tunnel), the script is unable to detect the domain name, the current user and the current computer. Currently we detect those using the following VBScript code (cleaned up to save space):

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Dim strDomain
Dim objADSystemInfo
Set objADSystemInfo = CreateObject("ADSystemInfo")

' AD info
strDomain = objADSystemInfo.DomainDNSName

' User account
Set objUser = GetObject("LDAP://" & strDomain & "/" & objADSystemInfo.UserName)

' Computer account
Set objComputer = GetObject("LDAP://" & strDomain & "/" & objADSystemInfo.ComputerName)

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Is there another way to detect these things?

Best regards,
Egil.

 

[PHV]

Straight from the help file:
Set WshNetwork = WScript.CreateObject("WScript.Network")
WScript.Echo "Domain = " & WshNetwork.UserDomain
WScript.Echo "Computer Name = " & WshNetwork.ComputerName
WScript.Echo "User Name = " & WshNetwork.UserName


Hope This Helps, PH.
FAQ219-2884
FAQ181-2886

 

[mrmovie]

slightly off topic and on top of what PHV has said i think i used to check %logonserver% to see if user had logged onto a domain or logged onto their machine
i like to expandenvironmentstrings...i think i am old fashioned

 

[EgilHansen]

Hi PHV

I'm afraid it's not that simple. My problem lies in actually getting in contact with the PDC and performing LDAP queries.

Even if I hard code the distinguished name I'm still turned down:

Set objUser = GetObject("LDAP://CN=Administrator,CN=Users,DC=xxxxxxx,DC=yyy")
WScript.Echo "sAMAccountName = " & objUser.sAMAccountName

If I run the above code, I get a "The specified domain either does not exist or could not be contacted."

I have updated my lmhost in accordance to

http://support.microsoft.com/default.aspx?scid=kb;EN-US;180094

- and indeed I'm able to ping my PDC on both ip and dns name/hostname.

Is there any other tricks I haven't tried that might work?

Best regards, Egil.

 

[dm4ever]

What if you specified a specific DC.

i.e.

LDAP://Server01/CN=Administrator,CN=Users,DC=xxxxxxx,DC=yyy

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dm4ever
My philosophy: K.I.S.S - Keep It Simple Stupid

 

[EgilHansen]

Thanks dm4ever, the basic hard coded example works now.