Are there any command line options available to know the (user)account type?

[Hemanth Thummala]

Thanks Ralph! This definitely helps. 

On 16/02/18, 2:09 PM, "Ralph Böhme" <slow at samba.org> wrote:

    On Fri, Feb 16, 2018 at 08:01:09PM +0000, Hemanth Thummala via samba-technical wrote:
    > Correct. Looks like that’s the only authoritative way to identify a machine
    > account. We are able to get this information using ldapsearch query using
    > anonymous bind.  But, we would like to know if this ldapsearch anonymous bind
    > works all the time to query for “SamAccountType” attribute for any user
    > account. Is there a possibility that this anonymous check can be blocked by
    > placing any restrictions on the Active Directory objects?
    
    duno, but on a member server why not bind with machine trust account credentials
    and use net ads search:
    
    # net ads search -P cn=NAME sAMAccountType
    
    ?
    
    -slow
    
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