Finding User Profile path

kyosohma at gmail.com kyosohma at gmail.com
Thu Mar 29 09:45:04 EDT 2007


On Mar 29, 8:23 am, Tim Golden <m... at timgolden.me.uk> wrote:
> kyoso... at gmail.com wrote:
> > One of my co-workers thought I could do
> > something like this:
>
> > c = wmi.WMI()
> > for i in c.Win32_UserAccount(Name=user):
> >     # Get user paths somehow.
>
> > I messed around with that, but I think he was mistaken. It has lots of
> > good info, but not what I need.
>
> > I apologize for not being specific. I will look at those win32net
> > functions.
>
> > Mike
>
> Might depend on what you mean by "profile" but would the
> users' homeDirectory/homeDrive active directory attributes
> or the profilePath be of use here? If so, they're fairly
> easy to get hold of.
>
> TJG

Yes. It's the homeDirectory as you say. Once again the IT community's
use of multiple terms for the same thing has bitten me.

Mike




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