How to get the user group in win NT/2000/XP

C lviu

I have a string specifying the user name in the format: "domain\username". My question is: How can I get the group to witch the user belongs to? I searched API's but couldn't find anything all I could find was "LookupAccountName" but it is not what I'm looking for. Please help if you know something. Thank's

David Crow

LookupAccountSid() is but one way. NetUserGetInfo() is another.

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C lviu

This is good, but it seems to work only for local users. It doesn't work for a user on a diffrent domain for exaple if my computer name is "Station" and it belongs to the "LAN" domain and there is a user on the domain "LAN" called "globalUser" and a user on the local machine called "localUser", the function fill fail if I try to look up the user "LAN\globalUser". Even more, NetUserEnum() will not show the user called "globalUser".

David Crow

I can use the following to get all users on my PDC:

LPUSER_INFO_0 pUserInfo = NULL,
pUserInfoTemp = NULL;
NET_API_STATUS nStatus;
DWORD dwIndex,
dwEntriesRead,
dwTotalEntries,
dwResumeHandle = 0;
CString strText;

nStatus = NetUserEnum(_T("\\\\tulsant"), 0, 0, (LPBYTE *) &pUserInfo, MAX_PREFERRED_LENGTH, &dwEntriesRead, &dwTotalEntries, &dwResumeHandle);
if (nStatus == NERR_Success || nStatus == ERROR_MORE_DATA)
{
pUserInfoTemp = pUserInfo;
if (NULL != pUserInfoTemp)
{
for (dwIndex = 0; dwIndex < dwEntriesRead; dwIndex++)
{
if (NULL == pUserInfoTemp)
break;

        strText = pUserInfoTemp->usri0\_name;
        m\_cbUserList.AddString(strText);

        pUserInfoTemp++;
    }
}

}

A rich person is not the one who has the most, but the one that needs the least.

C lviu

Yes, this works fine for local users but I want to list even the users on other domains. It must be possible beacause in Win2000 when I go to "Control Panel\Users and Passwords\Add\Browse" it shows me a list of all users on my domain but NetUserEnum() only enumerates the users that are stored on my computer.

David Crow

The code snippet I provided is for iterating the userlist on the listed domain controller. If it is not working for you, something else is at play. How are you using the NetUserEnum() function?

A rich person is not the one who has the most, but the one that needs the least.

Brian Shifrin

NetUserGetGroups or IADsUser::Groups