Im attempting to do a dsquery on a remoter AD server that I have access to through my network(No UN and PASS required).
dsquery server -s <server name>
is supposed to connect me to a server while
dsquery user -name <username>
is supposed to search for a certain user.
I attempted to combine the two with "&&" but it just get a list of LDAP object.
Is what I'm trying to do even possible ?
I've searched but do not seem to find anything on the matter
Best Answer
dsquery server
is for finding server instances, not connecting to a server - there's no session or setting persistence from one run ofdsquery
to another.To do this query against a specific server, this would be the syntax:
However, this is a query against the user's name, not their account name (unsure of whether it's looking at the
displayName
,cn
, or some other attribute) - to query against a user's account name this would be the query to use: