20 Netbios Domain Name Check New

The following steps from understanding disjoint namespace scenarios.

Netbios domain name check. So not much good if your code is running as a service. This gets the network domain name associated with the current user. Okay so its pretty easy to get the fully qualified domain name fqdn.

Open the active directory domains and. Using a graphical user interface. You want to find the netbios name of a domain.

On a windows server with active directory domain services or remote server administration tools installed open your start menu and select run. The variable userdomain displays the netbios domain name. Exchange 2010 sp1 help explain how to view the dns host name primary dns suffix dns domain name netbios name and netbios domain name of a computer running windows server 2008.

The quickest way is to use system environment. Although microsoft has moved to using dns for primary name resolution the netbios name of a domain is still important especially with down level clients that are still based on netbios instead of dns for naming. When scanning assets using lansweeper you sometimes needs to submit your domain s dns or netbios name as part of the scanning target if you re unsure what your domain s dns or netbios name is do the following.