I am running the Visual Basic 6 code...

Articles and Tips: qna

01 Jun 2003

I am running the Visual Basic 6 code below, using a filter on User of CN (Common Name), but it does not find any entries. However, searching with "surname" does and with no filter the maximum of 20 entries are found. Why can't I use CN, I thought common name was always available and it is shown in all examples.

With NWDirQuery
	FullName = NDS_Tree
	Fields = "Surname, Given Name, NGW: Post Office"
	Filter = "user(Surname = Owen)"
	Filter = "User(CN= SOwen )"
	SearchScope = qrySearchSubtree
	SearchMode = qrySearchSynchronous
	MaximumResults = 20
	Set objNWResults = .Search
End With

My setup includes the following:

Windows 2000 Server running Service Pack 3
Novell NDS client 4.83 SP1_BETA_0711
Novell eDirectory Services v8.6.2
NwDirQ.dll ver 1.0.0.1

I think your problem lies in the fact that you need to include "CN" in your fields requirement. Here is some code that works:

NWDirQuery1.FullName = strNDSName
NWDirQuery1.Filter = "User( CN = " +
			txtSearchFor.Text + "*)"
NWDirQuery1.SortKeys = "CN"
NWDirQuery1.Fields = "CN, Full Name,
			Given Name, Surname"
NWDirQuery1.SearchScope =
			qrySearchSubtree
NWDirQuery1.SearchMode =
			qrySearchAsynchronous
NWDirQuery1.MaximumResults = 1000
Set results = NWDirQuery1.Search

* Originally published in Novell AppNotes

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