What is the replacement for the Ndap control that is not supported? Because I have a problem when I want to change the trustee right to a directory that have an accent in it "\\vol1\coco\dédé" for exemple. It allways give me an General API error.

I use visual basic 2005

Geoff,

Here in the UK we consider ourselves more civilized! We would not arm our bears even if we had them! Do Hippos count as bears?

I have started throwing some code together, although what you are asking for is not as simple as it first sounds, as different attribute syntax require different methods of copy. May take a little while!!

Maybe I should have a warning that caters for Bears with Arms (or Americans ;o) ) - an action button that will present a picture of Paddington Bear (Google him!) with an Uzzi 9mm in his hand and a smoking hole in his foot... I feel a photoshop moment coming on....

Cheers

Jim

Jim,

Heck ya! Do it man!

This is America! We have the right to arm bears! We should be allowed to shoot ourselves in the foot as often as we want, and with automatic weapons too please!

More seriously (assuming that last comment does not get this post rejected) I think it would be useful, and I would add a preference setting to turn off a warning box, that warns you about the potential issues.

Like in DSRepair -a, where you Destroy Replica on this server, and you have to type "I agree" in the box, that warns you NTS will NOT bail you out on this one...

Or on a BB when you want to wipe the device, you have to type "Blackeberry" to move on.

You could require us to type "Arm the bears" to get past it too! That would be awesome! (Till the Ursine revolutionary party comes after you with a libel charge, and then the anti-Ursine Revolutionary group will try and have you charged under the Patriot Act for encouraging Ursine revanchism. I would take those odds! But then I am a strong supporter of the Ursine rights movement! Equal rights for bears, teddy, polar, brown, black, or grizzly! Though not Hippos! They are very dangerous animals!).

Sure I have most of that code to achieve this already written - my only concern here is that the tool you are talking about would be extremely powerful - it would be stunningly easy to do an awful lot of damage, very very quickly!! At least if you are doing it with LDIF you are not a "wet behind the ears" admin...

I guess a few "are you really sure you want to do this" prompts would cover that..... along with a prompt to run an NDS backup and the telephone number for Novell Technical Support ;)

Since you already have an interface and basic code done, any chance you might consider extending this into a generic attribute copier?

I.e. Select a user and show the list of attrs, then copy everything selected?

That would be a really nice GUI tool to have. Ya, i could do it in LDIF, but a UI has value too!