From: "Peña, Botp" <botp@...>
Date: 2005-03-23T11:22:55+09:00
Subject: Re: etc win32utils seg faults when a pdc/bdc is queried

Berger, Daniel [mailto:Daniel.Berger@qwest.com]  wrote:

//Hm...that's strange.  Does it help if you put a "\\" in front 
//of the domain controller name?  I believe NT requires that 
//(while 2k and later do not).

C:\family\ruby>ruby -rwin32/etc -e "p
Win32::Etc.getpwnam('Administrator','\\pdc')"
-e:1:in `getpwnam': unknown error/invalid server (Win32::Etc::EtcError)
        from -e:1

i also tested it on more than 2 backslashes :-)

//Still, it shouldn't segfault.  I'll look into it.

thanks and kind regards 
-botp

//
//Regards,
//
//Dan
//