IADsUser

The IADsUser interface is a dual interface that inherits from IADs. It is designed to represent and manage an end-user account on a network. Call the methods of this interface to access and manipulate end-user account data. Such data includes names of the user, telephone numbers, job title, and so on. This interface supports features for determining the group association of the user, and for setting or changing the password.

To bind to a domain user through a WinNT provider, use the domain name as part of the ADsPath, as shown in the following code example.

GetObject("WinNT://MYDOMAIN/jeffsmith,user")

Similarly, use the computer name as part of the ADsPath to bind to a local user.

GetObject("WinNT://MYCOMPUTER/jeffsmith,user")

In Active Directory®, domain users reside in the directory. The following code example shows how to bind to a domain user through an LDAP provider.

GetObject("LDAP://CN=Jeff Smith,OU=Sales,DC=Fabrikam,DC=Com")

However, local accounts reside in the local SAM database and the LDAP provider does not communicate with the local database. Thus, to bind to a local user, you must go through a WinNT provider as described in the second code fragment.

Methods in Vtable Order

The IADsUser interface inherits the methods of the standard COM interfaces:

• IUnknown
• IDispatch

In addition, IADsUser defines the following methods.

Properties

The IADsUser interface defines the following properties. The preceding table includes access methods for these properties.

Remarks

As with any other ADSI object, the container object creates a Windows NT/Windows 2000 user account object. First, bind to a container object. Then, call the IADsContainer::Create method and specify mandatory or optional attributes.

User Creation Using WinNT

With WinNT, you do not have to specify any additional attributes when creating a user. You may call the IADsContainer::Create method to create the user object directly.

Dim dom As IADsContainer
Dim usr As IADsUser

On Error GoTo Cleanup

Set dom = GetObject("WinNT://MyDomain")
Set usr = dom.Create("user","jeffsmith")
usr.SetInfo

Cleanup:
	If(Err.Number<>0) Then
		MsgBox("An error has occurred. " & Err.Number)
	End If
	Set mach = Nothing
	Set usr = Nothing

In this case, a domain user is created with the following default attribute values.

To create a local user, bind to a target machine, as shown in the following code example.

Dim mach As IADsContainer
Dim usr as IADsUser

On Error GoTo Cleanup
Set mach = GetObject("WinNT://MyMachine,Computer")
Set usr = mach.Create("user","jeffsmith")
usr.SetInfo

Cleanup:
	If(Err.Number<>0) Then
		MsgBox("An error has occurred. " & Err.Number)
	End If
	Set mach = Nothing
	Set usr = Nothing

The newly created local user will have the same default properties as the domain user. The group membership, however, will be "users", instead of "domain user".

Requirements

Client: Included in Windows XP and Windows 2000 Professional.
Server: Included in Windows Server 2003 and Windows 2000 Server.
Redistributable: Requires Active Directory Client Extension on Windows NT 4.0 SP6a and Windows 95/98/Me.
Header: Declared in Iads.h.

See Also

IADs, IADsUser Property Methods, IADsContainer::Create