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- 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
- 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 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
- 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)
- Get IP addresses and computer names in the same network
NetBIOS name; Ping time; MAC address; Remote shutdown (windows only, I pressume), and others; Advanced IP Scanner is a fast, robust and easy-to-use IP scanner for Windows It easily lets you have various types of information about local network computers in a few seconds!
- windows - How to get a list of all IP addresses (and ideally device . . .
If you have access to the router that's acting as the default gateway for the subnet in question, then listing the ARP cache on the router (I believe it's just "show arp" on a Cisco IOS device) is the best way to go
- Overcoming maximum file path length restrictions in Windows
And now that file name is only ~235 characters or so, so you will not encounter the "Filename is too long" problems any more In the Windows API, there is an infamous constant known as MAX_PATH MAX_PATH is 260 characters The NTFS file system actually supports file paths of up to 32,767 characters
- 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
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