HOWTO: Call LAN Manager Functions from 16-bit Visual Basic 4.0

• Microsoft Visual Basic Professional and Enterprise Editions, 16-bit only, for Windows, version 4.0

SUMMARY

The Win32 network service APIs ported from LAN Manager are Unicode and used by Windows NT only. For Windows 95 and Windows 98, you must use the 16-bit LAN Manager functions. This article illustrates how to call the 16-bit LAN Manager functions from a Visual Basic 4.0 16-bit application.

MORE INFORMATION

The following sample application retrieves network information for a specified user. It uses two TextBoxes to collect the domain name and the user name. It then calls NetGetDCName to get the name of the Primary Domain Controller (PDC) for the specified domain. Once the application retrieves the PDC, it calls NetUserGetGroups to retrieve the list of global groups and NetUserGetInfo to retrieve the USER_INFO_10 structure. See the REFERENCES section of this article for more information.

Step-by-Step Example

1. Start Visual Basic 4.0. If you are already running Visual Basic, choose New Project on the File menu. Form1 is created by default.



2. Add a CommandButton, Command1, to Form1.



3. Add two TextBoxes, Text1 and Text2, to Form1. The domain name is entered in Text1 and the user name is entered in Text2.



4. Add a ListBox, List1, to Form1. The ListBox contains user information including the groups that the user belongs to.



5. Add the following code to the General Declarations section of Form1:

   
         Option Explicit
         Private Declare Function LStrCpy Lib "kernel" (ByVal Dest As _
             String, ByVal Source As Any) As Integer
         Private Declare Function NetGetDCName Lib "NETAPI.DLL" ( _
             ByVal server As String, ByVal domain As String, ByVal buffer As _
             String, ByVal cbBuffer As Integer) As Integer
         Private Declare Function NetUserGetInfo Lib "NETAPI.DLL" (ByVal _
             server As String, ByVal UserName As String, ByVal level As _
             Integer, buffer As Any, ByVal cbBuffer As Integer, pcbTotal As _
             Integer) As Integer
         Private Declare Function NetUserGetGroups Lib "NETAPI.DLL" (ByVal _
             server As String, ByVal UserName As String, ByVal level As _
             Integer, ByVal buffer As String, ByVal cbBuffer As Integer, _
             cEntriesRead As Integer, cTotalAvail As Integer) As Integer
         
         Private Type USER_INFO_10
             usri10_name As String * 22
             usri10_comment As Long
             usri10_usr_comment As Long
             usri10_full_name As Long
             usri10_extraspace As String * 400
         End Type
         
         Private Type group_users_info_0
             grui0_name As String * 22
         End Type
         
         Private UserI As USER_INFO_10
         Private Group As group_users_info_0
         
         Public Function PointerToString(Pointer As Long) As String
             Dim res As Integer
             Dim buffer As String * 80
             buffer = String(80, 0)
         
             If Pointer > 0 Then
               res = LStrCpy(buffer, Pointer)
             End If
         
             PointerToString = Left(buffer, InStr(buffer, Chr(0)) - 1)
         End Function 




6. Add the following code in the Command1_Click event procedure:

   
             Private Sub Command1_Click()
             List1.Clear
             Screen.MousePointer = vbHourglass
         
             Dim domain As String
             domain = Text1.Text
             Dim user_name As String
             user_name = Text2.Text
         
             Dim dc_name As String
             dc_name = String(22, 0)
         
         
             Dim status As Long
            'Get the name of the Domain Server
             status = NetGetDCName("", domain, dc_name, Len(dc_name))
         
             If status <> 0 Then
                 MsgBox "Domain not found."
             Else
                 'Strip off the extra characters from dc_name
                 dc_name = Left(dc_name, InStr(dc_name, Chr(0)))
         
                 Dim cRead As Integer
                 Dim total As Integer
                 Dim allGroups As String * 255
                 allGroups = String(255, 0)
                 status = NetUserGetGroups(dc_name, user_name, 0, _
                         allGroups, 255, cRead, total)
                 If (status <> 0) Then
                     MsgBox "NetUserGetGroups fails."
                     Exit Sub
                 Else
                     Dim i As Integer
                     For i = 1 To total
                         Group.grui0_name = Trim(Left(allGroups, 21))
                         List1.AddItem Group.grui0_name
                         allGroups = Mid(allGroups, 22, Len(allGroups) - 22)
                         allGroups = Trim(allGroups)
                     Next i
                 End If
         
                 status = NetUserGetInfo(dc_name, user_name, 10, _
                         UserI, Len(UserI), total)
         
                 If (status <> 0) Then
                     MsgBox "User name not found."
                     Exit Sub
                 Else
                     List1.AddItem "User Name: " & Left(UserI.usri10_name, _
                         InStr(UserI.usri10_name, Chr(0)) - 1)
                     List1.AddItem "Comment: " & _
                         PointerToString(UserI.usri10_comment)
                     List1.AddItem "User Comment: " & _
                         PointerToString(UserI.usri10_usr_comment)
                     List1.AddItem "Full Name: " & _
                         PointerToString(UserI.usri10_full_name)
                 End If
             End If
         
             Screen.MousePointer = vbNormal
         End Sub 




7. Start the program. Enter a valid domain name and user name in the TextBoxes and click the CommandButton. The ListBox fills with the user information.

REFERENCES

The following article in the Microsoft Knowledge Base demonstrates techniques that are useful in calling most 32-bit network service APIs on Windows NT from a Visual Basic 4.0 32-bit application:

Q151774 How to Call NetUserGetInfo from Visual Basic 4.0

Additional query words: kb16bitonly kbVBp400 kbVBp kbWinOS98

Keywords          : kbnetwork kbAPI kbSDKPlatform kbNetAPI kbGrpNet 
Version           : WINDOWS:4.0
Platform          : WINDOWS 
Issue type        : kbhowto 

Last Reviewed: July 20, 1999