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c#.netauthenticationcomactive-directory
Alex Zhukovskiy
Alex Zhukovskiy

Reputation: 10015

Get domain name from PrincipalContext

Assume that we have this context

private static readonly PrincipalContext Context = 
    new PrincipalContext(ContextType.Domain, "255.255.255.252",
                         "OU=TestOrgUnit,DC=as,DC=asf",
                         "blabla", "12345");

I'm searching for users in this domain. I get their's names as SomeNickName, but they should be DomainName\SomeNickName.

Is it possible to get a DomainName from PrincipalContext object? I found a solution for DirectoryEntry, but cannot convert PrincipalContext into it.

This code

DirectoryEntry deBase = new DirectoryEntry("255.255.255.252", "AdminLogin", "PWD");

and this code

DirectoryEntry deBase = new DirectoryEntry("255.255.255.252://OU=TestOrgUnit,DC=as,DC=asf", "AdminLogin", "PWD");

throws an exception and doesn't work.

Upvotes: 1

Views: 1620

Answers (1)

codingChris
codingChris

Reputation: 697

So technically you have the domain info in the DN you've specified for the connecting OU (DC=as,DC=asf). The first DC is the pre-Win2K name which seems to be what you're looking for.

As far as the PrincipalContext itself containing the domain info it seems that it doesn't.

If you want to use the DE to get more properties or to do your user search, you need to create it like this:

var deBase = new DirectoryEntry("LDAP://255.255.255.252/OU=TestOrgUnit,DC=as,DC=asf", "AdminLogin", "PWD")

Upvotes: 1

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