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- Find name of Active Directory domain controller - Server Fault
For a computer that is a member of a domain the Environment Variable LOGONSERVER contains the name of the DC that authenticated the current user This is obviously not going to be all DC's in a multi-DC environment but if all you want is a quick way to find the name of a Domain Controller then from a command shell: set l <enter>
- Local DNS not resolving host name but will resolve FQDN
At this point I noticed DNS was having problems From the client I am not able to resolve the servers host name but I am able to hit it by FQDN: C:\Documents and Settings\Administrator>nslookup Default Server: sh-server domain Address: 10 71 40 100 ^ sh-server *****unsuccessful when querying host name
- Any difference between DOMAIN\username and - Server Fault
Domain\User is the "old" logon format, called down-level logon name Also known by the names SAMAccountName and pre-Windows 2000 logon name [email protected] is a UPN - User Principal Name It's the "preferred", newer logon format It's an Internet-style login name, that should map to the user email name (Ref at MSDN)
- windows - Resolve host name from IP address - Server Fault
This is the statement I wouldn't believe unless I see it myself ;) The explanation must be that nslookup uses only DNS protocol, but tracert uses the system name resolution library which uses DNS as a last resort, after WINS, NetBIOS, hosts file and so on were tried; however, in your example the name looks like DNS name
- windows - Current date in the file name - Server Fault
In the command prompt and batch files, you can use %date% and %time% to return the date and time respectively Date works fine, but the time value returned contains colons, which are illegal for use in filenames, but there is a way to remove th
- Windows Active Directory naming best practices? - Server Fault
This is a Canonical Question about Active Directory domain naming After experimenting with Windows domains and domain controllers in a virtual environment, I've realized that having an active directory domain named identically to a DNS domain is bad idea (Meaning that having example com as an Active Directory name is no good when we have the example com domain name registered for use as our
- Can someone please explain Windows Service Principle Names (SPNs . . .
A Service Principal Name is a concept from Kerberos It's an identifier for a particular service offered by a particular host within an authentication domain The common form for SPNs is service class fqdn@REALM (e g IMAP [email protected])
- DNS cant resolve hostname; nslookup can - Server Fault
In the end I found that IPv6 was causing the problems with the name resolution: on each DNS query the IPv6 DNS was queried rather than the IPv4 company DNS servers After deactivating IPv6, you have to ipconfig flushdns otherwise previously queried addresses may still not be resolved
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