Enumerating Users on Member Servers and Windows 2000 Professional

On member servers and computers running on Windows 2000 Professional, you can enumerate all users in local security database.

To enumerate the users on a member server or computer running on Windows 2000 Professional

1. Bind to the computer using the following rules:
   • Use credentials with sufficient rights to access that computer.
   • Use to the computer with a binding string that takes the following form:

     WinNT://ComputerName,computer

     where ComputerName is the name of the computer to access.

     In the binding string, the ",computer" option informs ADSI that it is binding to a computer and allows the WinNT parser to skip some ambiguity-resolution queries to determine what type of object bound to.

   • Obtain the IADsContainer interface for the computer.
2. Add user to the IADsContainer.Filter property. This causes the enumeration to only contain objects that have the user object class.
3. Enumerate the objects. For each user object, use the IADs or IADsUser interface methods to read the user properties.