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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>
- 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
- 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])
- 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
- IPTables: No chain target match by that name - Server Fault
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- Generate CSR including certificate template information with OpenSSL . . .
Using the following openssl config file: oid_section = OIDs [ OIDs ] # This uses the short name of the template: certificateTemplateName = 1 3 6 1 4 1 311 20 2 # Use this instead if you need to refer to the template by OID: # certificateTemplateOID = 1 3 6 1 4 1 311 21 7 [ req ] prompt = no string_mask = default # The size of the keys in bits: default_bits = 2048 distinguished_name = req_dn
- 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)
- domain name system - Whats the command-line utility in Windows to do a . . .
The trouble with "ping" is that it's not strictly a name server lookup tool (like nslookup) - for instance if you ping a hostname, it can be resolved to an IP address by a number of methods: DNS lookup, host file lookup, WINS (god forbid) or NetBIOS broadcast
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