Hi,
I'm using the following code to create a user:
Dim strNodeName As String = "test user"
Dim NewUser As DirectoryEntry
Dim AD As New DirectoryEntry( "WinNT://MYCOMPUTER")
'delete user when existing
Try
NewUser = AD.Children.Fin d(strNodeName, "User")
AD.Children.Rem ove(NewUser)
'catch 'not found' exception
Catch comEx As COMException
Console.WriteLi ne(comEx.Messag e)
End Try
'add user using the user schema
NewUser = AD.Children.Add (strNodeName, "user")
NewUser.Propert ies("descriptio n").Add("tes t user")
'set user flags, sets normal user and pwd cant change
NewUser.Propert ies("userFlags" ).Add(UF_NORMAL _ACCOUNT Or
UF_PASSWD_CANT_ CHANGE)
'invoke native method 'Setpassword; before comitting
NewUser.Invoke( "SetPasswor d", New Object() {"mysecret"} )
NewUser.CommitC hanges()
'add user toguest alias
Dim grp As DirectoryEntry = AD.Children.Fin d("Administrato rs", "group")
If Not grp.Name Is Nothing Then
grp.Invoke("Add ", New Object() {NewUser.Path.T oString()})
Console.WriteLi ne("Account Created Successfully")
End If
This works fine if I set the domain to be the computer that the code runs on
but if I set it to be our companies domain then I get a
System.Unauthor izedAccessExcep tion. So I when instntiating 'AD' I aslo
passed in the username and password of the administrator on the domain who
is allowed to add users.
I then don;t get an exception, everything runs fine but no user is added to
the local machine, even after reboot. What am I doing wrong?
TIA