VBScript Error

[Iain]

Is the error occuring when binding to the group object or when adding the user to the group?

Try using WScript.Echo strUserDN and WScript.Echo strGroup to see what these variables are set to.

Looking at your code the group should be called students and in an OU called Groups which is in the root of the directory. The user objects should should be in an OU called Year5, which is in an OU called Students, which is in the directory root. Is this correct?

Iain.

[sqdge]

Is the error occuring when binding to the group object or when adding the user to the group?

Try using WScript.Echo strUserDN and WScript.Echo strGroup to see what these variables are set to.

Looking at your code the group should be called students and in an OU called Groups which is in the root of the directory. The user objects should should be in an OU called Year5, which is in an OU called Students, which is in the directory root. Is this correct?

Iain.

I am definitely pointing to the right areas for the user and group. Having transferred my code to NoteTab Lite, I now know that it has a problem with the strUserDN line - claiming that there is no such object on the server.

I can't seem to use the WScript.Echo because the program stops as soon as it gets to the problem, and I can only put the echo after those lines.

[Iain]

You can put a WScript.Echo anywhere you like in a script.
If you want to know the value of strUserDN before it is used, put the echo command before the line

objGroup.Add(strUserDN)

If you want to know the vale of strGroup, put the echo command before the line

Set objGroup = GetObject(strGroup)

Iain.

[sqdge]

You can put a WScript.Echo anywhere you like in a script.
If you want to know the value of strUserDN before it is used, put the echo command before the line

objGroup.Add(strUserDN)

If you want to know the vale of strGroup, put the echo command before the line

Set objGroup = GetObject(strGroup)

Iain.

It seems to return back all the correct settings: The user is in an OU called "Year5" within an OU called "Students", and the group is called "students" in an OU called "Groups". Yet still it returns this "there is no such object on the server" error.

[Iain]

The two OUs 'Students' and 'Groups' aren't inside any other OUs are they?

It may be worth downloading an LDAP browser, such as this (needs a java > 1.2.2)

If you use this to navigate to a user object in the Year5 OU and take a look at the distinguishedName attribute, this should be the same (excluding the ldap:// and different cn) as the output for strUserDN. Do the same for the Students group object and strGroup.

Iain

[Iain]

Also try running the script in the Microsoft Script Debugger, this allows you to set breakpoints and check variable values on the fly.
Use either wscript //X <scriptname> or cscript //X <scriptname> to start the debugger.

Iain.