Hello,

I have written a VB application that uses ADSI to get to the computers on my
domain to do administrative tasks.
It works fine but a few computers that are online and running alsways return
the following error when running this code

Set container = objDSO.OpenDSObject(sIADsPath & "/" & sComputerName, _
                                             "MyDomAdmAccount", _
                                             "MyDomAdmPassword_
                                             ADS_SECURE_AUTHENTICATION)

The error:
    Automation error
    The network path was not found.  -2147024843

One of these computers is on a small desktop switch, the others are not ...
(the LAN is switched itself, but only a few machine generate this problem).
With the machine on the desktop switch changing to an outlet fixes te
problem, but on the other machine the problem remains.

Is the problem a time out or are their any issues when dealing with PC's on
switches.

Thank a lot,

DJ

I had a similar (network path not found) on an NT4 box after installing the "Security Rollup Package" (SRP) that was resolved by uninstalling the SRP.  

I was also able to work around the problem with the SRP still installed by using an ADS path that used "WinNT://domainname/domaincontroller/..." instead of just "WinNT://domainname/..." where I retrieved and used the value of the %LOGONSERVER% environment variable for the domaincontroller portion of the path...

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