Computer LDAP path

I am looking a way to find out the LDAP path of a computer object. I found an example in vbs, but I don't figure out to translate this in c#. Does anyone got an idea how to do this

Thanks.

I post you the vbs code for your info.

Public Const ADS_NAME_INITTYPE_GC = 3
Public Const ADS_NAME_TYPE_1779 = 1
Public const ADS_NAME_TYPE_NT4 = 3

sSAMAccountName = "domain\computername$" 'replace with the computer account with $ on the end

Set oNTr = WScript.CreateObject("NameTranslate")
oNTr.Init ADS_NAME_INITTYPE_GC, ""
oNTr.Set ADS_NAME_TYPE_NT4, sSAMAccountName
GetDNFromSAM = oNTr.Get(ADS_NAME_TYPE_1779)

Set oUser = GetObject("GC://" & GetDNFromSAM)
sUserContainerDN = Replace(lcase(oUser.distinguishedName), lcase("cn=" & oUser.cn) & ",", "")
WScript.Echo sUserContainerDN

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Computer LDAP path

Adrian w
Hello,

Thanks for answering.
At the moment it doesn't bring me further.

I was looking in the help files of VS2005 and came across this:

try
{
DirectoryEntry usr = new DirectoryEntry("WinNT://hostname,computer");
string test = (string)usr.InvokeGet("ADsPath");
MessageBox.Show("test=" + test);
}
catch (System.Exception ex)
{ MessageBox.Show(ex.Message); }

But it doesn't get me in a good direction.
Can you help me out
James Hill
Look at msdn on the Enterprise services. The examples should show you how to call active directory services which are identical to calling ldap except part of the string for the domain will have ldap: in it instead of just the domain.
Marcel Lattmann
I found it. With the help of... Marc Scheuner
http://www.techietwo.com/detail-6060651.html

Ok, the solution:
Add a COM reference ActiveDs (Active DS Type Library)

On top of the document add using ActiveDs;

Private void GetPath()
{
string sComputerName = "Hostname";

ActiveDs.IADsADSystemInfo oSysInfo = new ActiveDs.ADSystemInfoClass();
ActiveDs.IADsNameTranslate oNameTranslate = new ActiveDs.NameTranslateClass();
oNameTranslate.Init((int)ActiveDs.ADS_NAME_INITTYPE_ENUM.ADS_NAME_INITTYPE_DOMAIN,"EUROPE");
oNameTranslate.Set((int)ActiveDs.ADS_NAME_TYPE_ENUM.ADS_NAME_TYPE_NT4,("EUROPE\\" + sComputerName + "$"));
string sTemp = oNameTranslate.Get((int)ActiveDs.ADS_NAME_TYPE_ENUM.ADS_NAME_TYPE_1779);
MessageBox.Show("Path=" + sTemp);
}

Note the $ sign, that is needed in order to get the path = the Netbios name of the computer object.

Thanks all, hopefully you have something on it.
Computer LDAP path

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