I am making progress.....

but this seems to have me stumped.

According to the sdk, the access mask returns a flag value obtained from this table.

code:

    ADS_RIGHT_GENERIC_READ           = 0x80000000,
    ADS_RIGHT_GENERIC_WRITE          = 0x40000000,
    ADS_RIGHT_GENERIC_EXECUTE        = 0x20000000,
    ADS_RIGHT_GENERIC_ALL            = 0x10000000,
    ADS_RIGHT_ACCESS_SYSTEM_SECURITY = 0x1000000,
    ADS_RIGHT_SYNCHRONIZE            = 0x100000,
    ADS_RIGHT_WRITE_OWNER            = 0x80000,
    ADS_RIGHT_WRITE_DAC              = 0x40000,
    ADS_RIGHT_READ_CONTROL           = 0x20000,
    ADS_RIGHT_DELETE                 = 0x10000,
    ADS_RIGHT_DS_CONTROL_ACCESS      = 0x100
    ADS_RIGHT_DS_LIST_OBJECT         = 0x80,
    ADS_RIGHT_DS_DELETE_TREE         = 0x40,
    ADS_RIGHT_DS_WRITE_PROP          = 0x20,
    ADS_RIGHT_DS_READ_PROP           = 0x10,
    ADS_RIGHT_DS_SELF                = 0x8,
    ADS_RIGHT_ACTRL_DS_LIST          = 0x4,
    ADS_RIGHT_DS_DELETE_CHILD        = 0x2,
    ADS_RIGHT_DS_CREATE_CHILD        = 0x1,

the 0x# is that the value of the flag in hex? and is the value returned by .AccessMask a base 10 number?

I guess my non programmer roots are showing

Bryce