NetLocalGroupDelMembers

The NetLocalGroupDelMembers function removes one or more members from an existing local group.

Security Requirements

Only members of the Administrators or Account Operators local group can successfully execute NetLocalGroupDelMembers on a remote server.

NET_API_STATUS NetLocalGroupDelMembers(
  LPWSTR servername,      
  LPWSTR LocalGroupName,  
  DWORD level,            
  LPBYTE buf,             
  DWORD membercount       
);

Parameters

servername
Pointer to a null-terminated Unicode string containing the name of the remote server on which the function is to execute. A NULL pointer or string specifies the local computer.
LocalGroupName
Pointer to a null-terminated Unicode string containing the name of the local group from which the specified users or global groups will be removed.
level
Specifies one of the following values to set the level of information provided.
Value Meaning
0 The buf parameter points to an array of LOCALGROUP_MEMBERS_INFO_0 structures.
3 The buf parameter points to an array of LOCALGROUP_MEMBERS_INFO_3 structures.

buf
Pointer to the buffer containing data that describes the removed members.
membercount
Specifies the number of entries in the array pointed to by the buf parameter.

Return Values

If the function succeeds, the return value is NERR_Success.

If the function fails, the return value is one of the following error codes.

Value Meaning
NERR_GroupNotFound The local group specified by the groupname parameter does not exist.
ERROR_NO_SUCH_MEMBER One or more of the members do not exist. Therefore, no members were deleted.
ERROR_MEMBER_IN_ALIAS One or more of the members specified were not members of the local group. Therefore, no members were deleted.

QuickInfo

  Windows NT: Requires version 3.1 or later.
  Windows: Unsupported.
  Windows CE: Unsupported.
  Header: Declared in lmaccess.h.
  Import Library: Use netapi32.lib.

See Also

Networking (Net) Overview, Net Functions, NetLocalGroupAddMembers, NetLocalGroupDel, NetLocalGroupGetMembers