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Determining the NT logon Server in XP? 1

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Sep 16, 2003
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Hello All,


We're running a NT domain with multiple DCs and with several XP clients. When I log into one of the XP clients, how can I tell which server is doing the authentication?


Thank you,


JBG
 
Hi, Guy!

I did this by running a Kixtart script to announce the logon server. You might also be able to do it with a separate logon script on each server - as long as you remember to kill file replication first. In the separate scripts, you'd need to run a batch file with an "echo" statement to print the server's name to the workstation's screen.

Skip Tarrant, MCSE
Choice Solutions of Joplin
Joplin, MO, USA
 
Thanks for your reply! That's an idea I might look into... I was hoping that there was a utility like winmsd.exe in Win NT that would tell me. When I tried to use this utility, it looks like this program is linked to "system information" in Win XP, and doesn't list the logon server. =(

Thank you again for your reply!

Jay
 
go to a command prompt and type "set" (Without the quotation marks) - this should give you the details you need. It works on NT and W2K
 
Hey, thanks.

Didn't know about that one. Nice one.
 
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