novice LDAP query help

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Joe Murphy

Wondering if anyone can help me write a pretty basic LDAP query for an LDAP
novice.

Wanted to return all computers whose cn begins with either NARM or EUUK

This is what I have so far and it isn't working
(|(cn=euuk*) (cn=narm*))

Thanks,
JM
 
Wondering if anyone can help me write a pretty basic LDAP query for an LDAP
novice.

Wanted to return all computers whose cn begins with either NARM or EUUK

This is what I have so far and it isn't working
( | (cn=euuk*) (cn=narm*) )
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In what way is it not working? Is it not returning any results, or is
it giving too many results?

Have you tried each part separately?

Cheers,

Cliff
 
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(&(objectCategory=computer)(|(cn=euuk*)(cn=narm*)))

forgot the OR (|) for the names.


joe
 
Hi Joe,

Funny it should be you to reply to my query help. I'm using oldcmp.exe to
try and disable/delete computers, but I don't want to disable/delete any
whose name starts with euuk or narm

I ran:
oldcmp -age 0 -af (&(objectCategory=computer)(|(cn=euuk*)(cn=narm*))) -h
nahqdcs2.mycorp.com -report

and I get the error:
( was unexpected at this time.
 
I'm funny like that. :oP

You are using -af which is to ADD to the default filter and what you probably
wanted was -f to replace the filter though that would work as a -af filter, it
would just be a bit redundant. The main reason that specifically didn't work is
that you didn't quote the af string and the & told the command interpreter you
had two commands on one line.

For instance you can do

net stop alerter & net start alerter

The & splits the commands and says do the first and then do the second.



Anyway to this with -af you would want to specify something like

-af "(&(!(cn=euuk*))(!(cn=narm*)))"

You actually want to exclude those names so you need to look for the NOT of them.

joe
 
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