Vista - Detecting if a User is a Member of a Group

I'm working on some VBscript code to detect whether a user account is a
member of a particular group. However, I ran into a snag because sometimes
the user is a member only indirectly. That is, the user is part of some
domain user group that in turn is a member of a given group on the local
computer. My code only detects users who are directly members of the group.
Currently the code queries the members of a group like this (assuming that
you're interested in the group Power Users):

Set objAdmin = GetObject("WinNT://./Power Users,Group")
For Each objUser in objAdmin.Members
strNextUser = LCase(objUser.AdsPath)
Next

So suppose my computer is part of a domain called MYDM, and there's a user
group called MYDM\Test Group which includes my domain account called
MYDM\JohnDoe. And suppose also that the MYDM\Test Group has been added to the
Power Users group on my local machine. The above code will list MYDM\Test
Group as a member of the Power Users group, but it won't list MYDM\JohnDoe as
a member.

Is there a simple, reliable way around this? Thanks!
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Joseph

"Joseph Morales" <JosephMorales@xxxxxx> wrote in message
news:E8CAD6AF-0677-4A41-AF86-F29B4A52441A@xxxxxxYou want to either enumerate a local group, or check if a particular user is
a member of a local group. There is no simple solution. I have an example
VBScript program that enumerates a local group linked here:

http://www.rlmueller.net/Enumerate%20Local%20Group.htm

And I have an example VBScript program that demonstrates a function to test
membership in a local group linked here:

http://www.rlmueller.net/IsMember9.htm

Not only must nested local groups be considered, but nested domain groups
(which requires the LDAP provider).

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Richard Mueller
MVP Directory Services
Hilltop Lab - http://www.rlmueller.net
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"Richard Mueller [MVP]" <rlmueller-nospam@xxxxxx> wrote in
message news:%23CCz5618IHA.4892@xxxxxxWow! These examples must have been a lot of work. Thanks for sharing.
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Joseph Morales
http://cthulhufiles.com