Getting Users FullName

[John Daly]

The following code works fine on my development pc:
Public Shared Function GetFullName(ByV al userID As String) As String
Dim sQry As String = "WinNT://" & userID.Replace( "\", "/") & ",user"
Dim oUser As DirectoryEntry = New DirectoryEntry( sQry)

Return oUser.Propertie s("FullName").V alue.ToString
End Function

how ever it fails on the production server. It throws a Unknown Error
0x80005000, and Exception String is:

System.Runtime. InteropServices .COMException (0x80005000): Unknown error
(0x80005000) at System.Director yServices.Direc toryEntry.Bind( Boolean
throwIfFail) at System.Director yServices.Direc toryEntry.Bind( ) at
System.Director yServices.Direc toryEntry.get_A dsObject() at
System.Director yServices.Prope rtyValueCollect ion.PopulateLis t() at
System.Director yServices.Prope rtyValueCollect ion..ctor(Direc toryEntry entry,
String propertyName) at
System.Director yServices.Prope rtyCollection.g et_Item(String propertyName) at
_Default.Page_L oad(Object sender, EventArgs e)

Both machines are identical in all respects with the only difference being
the Production Server has 2 processors.

Does anyone know how to fix?

[John Daly]

I have resolved this issue. For those of you who need to know, I changed the
<processModel > element in the machine.config file.

The one on our production serverr read
<processModel autoConfig="tru e"/>
I changed it to
<processModel userName="SYSTE M" password="AutoG enerate"/>

I also add <identity impersonate="tr ue" /> to the web.config file. I do not
believe this made as much of a difference as the <processModel > did.
"John Daly" wrote:

The following code works fine on my development pc:
Public Shared Function GetFullName(ByV al userID As String) As String
Dim sQry As String = "WinNT://" & userID.Replace( "\", "/") & ",user"
Dim oUser As DirectoryEntry = New DirectoryEntry( sQry)

Return oUser.Propertie s("FullName").V alue.ToString
End Function

how ever it fails on the production server. It throws a Unknown Error
0x80005000, and Exception String is:

System.Runtime. InteropServices .COMException (0x80005000): Unknown error
(0x80005000) at System.Director yServices.Direc toryEntry.Bind( Boolean
throwIfFail) at System.Director yServices.Direc toryEntry.Bind( ) at
System.Director yServices.Direc toryEntry.get_A dsObject() at
System.Director yServices.Prope rtyValueCollect ion.PopulateLis t() at
System.Director yServices.Prope rtyValueCollect ion..ctor(Direc toryEntry entry,
String propertyName) at
System.Director yServices.Prope rtyCollection.g et_Item(String propertyName) at
_Default.Page_L oad(Object sender, EventArgs e)

Both machines are identical in all respects with the only difference being
the Production Server has 2 processors.

Does anyone know how to fix?