Fetch workgroup / active directory domain name programatically in Obj-C / Swift

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raghavendra_m OP

Created Oct ’24

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Previously, I used to have the below code to get workgroup / domain name of the active directory service provider.

SCDynamicStoreRef storeRef = SCDynamicStoreCreate(NULL, (CFStringRef)@"GetWorkgroup", NULL, NULL); CFPropertyListRef global = SCDynamicStoreCopyValue (storeRef,CFSTR("State:/Network/Global/SMB")); id workgroup = [(__bridge NSDictionary *)global valueForKey:@"Workgroup"];

On few Macs (probably starting from Sonoma), the workgroup property is not set. What is the alternative to get this information programatically?

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DTS Engineer OP

Apple

Oct ’24

Hmmm, that’s interesting. With System Configuration framework, the keys that are listed in <SystemConfiguration/SCSchemaDefinitions.h> are generally considered API. Both of the keys you’re using, SMB and Workgroup, are listed present [1], namely kSCEntNetSMB and kSCPropNetSMBWorkgroup, so I would expect this technique to continue to work.

Given that, I encourage you to file a bug about them being missing. Please post your bug number, just for the record.

The other place to get this info is from Open Directory. It’s been a long time since I’ve looked at this, so I’m a little fuzzy on the details. Can you find the info you need via dscl? If so, post the details and I can explain how to get the same info with the OD API.

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