Domain Controller Find Server Name
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Domain controller find server name. You can also identify a domain controller by the name of the server object that represents the domain controller the distinguished name dn of the ntds settings object or the server object the guid of the ntds settings object or the server object under the configuration partition or the dn of the computer object that represents the domain controller. Execute it with elevated privileges nltest dsgetdc domain this will return you the domain controller you are getting authenticated from. One very useful piece of information to know if you re working in large active directory implementation with multiple dc s and sites is to be able to determine which domain controller machines are authenticating against at any given time. There seem to be a few ways to skin this cat.
The domain controller uses some of the directory. Ed grauel jun 18 2013 at 02 53pm bmoore thank you. Echo userdomain note that the value in userdomain may not be the. Ryan b jun 18 2013 at 03 09pm very useful command for troubleshooting authentication issues on a domain.
How you can find out the name and ip address of the ad domain controller on your network. Bmoore jun 18 2013 at 02 48pm i would just use this command. You can also set the identity. In the open box type cmd.
If you have multiple domain controllers in your environment and you want to check with domain controller is authenticating your client you can execute the following command on command prompt. Type nslookup and then press enter. You can use nslookup is a command line tool that displays information you can use to diagnose domain name system dns infrastructure. Otherwise the client performs a site specific dns lookup again with the new optimal site name.
If the client has already tried to find domain controllers in that site for example when the client sends a dns lookup query to dns to find domain controllers in the client s subnet the client uses the domain controller that is not optimal. I have an windows xp workstation that is a member of the testlab domain and i am trying to figure out the name of the domain controller so that i can go and look to see what users have been defined for the domain. The logon server will be displayed. Command for this is given below.
Here s the command to tell us exactly that. We can find the domain name of a computer by running the following commnad from command line.