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Retrieve the Alias in the User Container

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Question:

I have two containers: 'user-guest' and 'user'

Some of the users in the 'user-guest' container have an alias in the 'user' container. I need to retrieve the alias in the 'user' container of a 'user-guest'-user. I know the user object in one container and I want to know his aliases in a (specific) other container. Is this possible ?

Answer:

The short answer is "no". There is no link back from an actual object to any alias objects that exist in the tree that point to the actual object. The linkage is one-way from the alias to the actual object.

The long answer involves a bit of code that allows you to obtain the information that you want. The following code is a script that will search your entire tree for alias objects that refer to an object that you specify. You will need to modify some variables so that they will contain information specific to your tree.

; Find Object Aliases script
; FindObjectAliases.wbt
; 32-bit
;
; Find all aliases in the tree that point to a specific object.


; Add in the NetWareX extender

AddExtender('WWNWX34I.DLL')


; Turn off alias object dereferencing

nwSetOptions(5,@FALSE)


; Set up some variables to be used later on

; The tree and target object values need to be changed for the specific
; evironment in which they are being run.

TreeSpec = '\\RTFM_NDS_65X'
TargetObjSpec = '.userb.test01.RTFM'
SearchCtx = '[Root]'
Flags = 2
Title01 = 'Find Object Aliases'


; Set up the search filter

nwSearchFilter(TreeSpec,'BASECLS','',0,0,0)
nwSearchFilter(TreeSpec,'ANAME','Alias',0,0,0)
nwSearchFilter(TreeSpec,'AND','',0,0,0)
nwSearchFilter(TreeSpec,'ANAME','Aliased Object Name',0,0,0)
nwSearchFilter(TreeSpec,'EQ','',0,0,0)
nwSearchFilter(TreeSpec,'AVAL',TargetObjSpec,0,0,0)
nwSearchFilter(TreeSpec,'END','',0,0,0)


; Perform the search

ErrorMode(@OFF)
Result = nwSearchObjects(SearchCtx,'','',Flags,'')
RC = LastError()
ErrorMode(@CANCEL)

TempObjList = StrReplace(Result,@TAB,' , ')

TempMsg = StrCat('nwSearchObjects("',SearchCtx,'","","",',Flags,',"")  RC = ',RC)

;Make sure the following statement is on one line
TempMsg = StrCat(TempMsg,@CRLF,@CRLF,'Matching user aliases found in the search scope are',@CRLF,@CRLF,TempObjList')

Message(Title01,TempMsg)

nwSearchFilter('','*FREE_BUFFER*','',0,0,0)

exit

 

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Article ID:   W16546

File Created: 2005:02:18:12:21:22

Last Updated: 2005:02:18:12:21:22