Finding User Profile path

Tim Golden mail at timgolden.me.uk
Thu Mar 29 10:05:25 EDT 2007


kyosohma at gmail.com wrote:
> 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.

I take it you're OK for getting things out of AD?

TJG



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