From: dave.burt@...
Date: 2005-08-31T09:51:24+09:00
Subject: Re: win32ole, adsi and computer info

Hi Dan,

Your variable, schema, is an IADsClass representing the class of adsi
(a Domain) - it has methods MandatoryProperties (empty) and
OptionalProperties (useful).

And there's the long way:

You can use obj.Class (or cLaSs or any other case variation from class,
which is a Ruby method) or obj.invoke("class") to find out what adsi's
class is. (i.e. "Computer")

Then you can find the class in the list here:
http://msdn.microsoft.com/library/en-us/adsi/adsi/adsi_objects_of_winnt.asp

Then you can follow the links to the documentation on each of the
interfaces the class. (For Computer: IADs,
IADsComputer,
IADsComputerOperations,
IADsContainer,
IADsPropertyList)

But that documentation is useful.

User objects are meant to have a LoginWorkstations property and a
SeeAlso; both of these seem not to work for me; I get "The directory
property cannot be found in the cache."

Session objects should be obtainable from a "LanmanServer" or
fso = WIN32OLE.connect("WinNT://computer_name/LanmanServer")
ss = fso.Sessions
That much works, but I can't get anything useful out of ss using each.
The Sessions contained in that collection should have Computer and User
properties. Maybe I don't have sufficient priveleges on the domain to
get this info (I'm only a developer here).

If you get it to work, please let me know.

Cheers,
Dave