Re: [ActiveDir] Getting the Pre Windows 2000 name for a domain
Hi Peter, It could be NetBiosName that I am looking for. I tried it on my domain, but it had no value. However that could be because my domain was not built pre Windows 2000. I will try it on the offending domain and see what it returns. Alan C - Original Message - From: Peter Jessop [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: ActiveDir@mail.activedir.org Sent: Sunday, August 21, 2005 7:45 PM Subject: Re: [ActiveDir] Getting the Pre Windows 2000 name for a domain If I understand you correctly you are looking for the Pre Windows 2000 name of computers (not the domain). The property name is sAMAccountName. i.e in order to find the pre Windows 2000 names of object in the DDD ou within domain BBB.CCC the script would be. Set objContainer = GetObject(LDAP://ou=DDD,dc=BBB,dc=CCC) For Each objcomputer In objContainer WScript.Echo objComputer.Name vbTab objComputer.sAMAccountName next The pre Windows 2000 name of the domain has a property called nETBIOSName. Regards Peter Jessop List info : http://www.activedir.org/List.aspx List FAQ: http://www.activedir.org/ListFAQ.aspx List archive: http://www.mail-archive.com/activedir%40mail.activedir.org/ List info : http://www.activedir.org/List.aspx List FAQ: http://www.activedir.org/ListFAQ.aspx List archive: http://www.mail-archive.com/activedir%40mail.activedir.org/
Re: [ActiveDir] Getting the Pre Windows 2000 name for a domain
If I understand you correctly you are looking for the Pre Windows 2000 name of computers (not the domain). The property name is sAMAccountName. i.e in order to find the pre Windows 2000 names of object in the DDD ou within domain BBB.CCC the script would be. Set objContainer = GetObject(LDAP://ou=DDD,dc=BBB,dc=CCC) For Each objcomputer In objContainer WScript.Echo objComputer.Name vbTab objComputer.sAMAccountName next The pre Windows 2000 name of the domain has a property called nETBIOSName. Regards Peter Jessop List info : http://www.activedir.org/List.aspx List FAQ: http://www.activedir.org/ListFAQ.aspx List archive: http://www.mail-archive.com/activedir%40mail.activedir.org/
RE: [ActiveDir] Getting the Pre Windows 2000 name for a domain
Title: RE: [ActiveDir] OT:Exchange 2003 SP1 bloat
As to the first question:
Dim objWSHNetwork
Set
objWSHNetwork = CreateObject ("WScript.Network")' get the NetBIOS
domain namestrNetBIOSDomain =
objWSHNetwork.UserDomainSet objWSHNetwork = Nothing
As to
the second question, see
http://www.microsoft.com/technet/scriptcenter/scripts/ad/computer/cptrvb07.mspx
and
http://msdn.microsoft.com/library/default.asp?url="">
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SupportSent: Sunday, August 21, 2005 1:54 AMTo:
ActiveDir@mail.activedir.orgSubject: [ActiveDir] Getting the Pre
Windows 2000 name for a domain
Hi,
I have a requirement to determine themachines
that are currently online for a particular domain. I use the Net View
command and give it a domain name such as:
Net View /Domain:DomName
SinceI know the Fully qualified Domain
name AAA.BBB.CCC then I use:-
Net View /Domain:AAA
and it normally works. However I have one client
that uses a different Pre Windows 2000 name (don't ask me why). I tried the
following bit of code to try and programmatically work out the Pre Windows 2000
name:-
Dim Sdou As
IADs Dim PropertyValue As
Variant Set Sdou =
GetObject("LDAP://DC=AAA,DC=BBB,DC=CCC")
For Each PropertyValue In
Sdou.GetEx("Name") If
PropertyValue ""
Then
MsgBox PropertyValue End
If Next
but it just returnedAAA.
So, is there a property in Active Directory that
returns the Pre Windows 2000 name?
Alternatively, is there anyway to determine the
machines that are online via AD, rather than via the Net View
command?
Alan Cuthbertson
Re: [ActiveDir] Getting the Pre Windows 2000 name for a domain
Title: RE: [ActiveDir] OT:Exchange 2003 SP1 bloat
Hi Michael,
Thanks for the response, But it isn't quite what I
want. The code you give gives the NetBios name of the
logged on user. I am trying to find the NetBios name
for another domain.
I have tried enumerating all machines on the domain
and then pinging them, but it takes too long. We have 20,000 machines, of which
10,000 are offline. Each ping to an offline machine takes 1 sec to time out, so
it takes over 3 hours! I was looking a for a quicker way
Alan C
- Original Message -
From:
Michael B.
Smith
To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Sent: Sunday, August 21, 2005 8:47
PM
Subject: RE: [ActiveDir] Getting the Pre
Windows 2000 name for a domain
As to the first question:
Dim objWSHNetwork
Set
objWSHNetwork = CreateObject ("WScript.Network")' get the
NetBIOS domain namestrNetBIOSDomain =
objWSHNetwork.UserDomainSet objWSHNetwork =
Nothing
As
to the second question, see
http://www.microsoft.com/technet/scriptcenter/scripts/ad/computer/cptrvb07.mspx
and
http://msdn.microsoft.com/library/default.asp?url="">
From: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
[mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of SysPro
SupportSent: Sunday, August 21, 2005 1:54 AMTo:
[EMAIL PROTECTED]Subject: [ActiveDir] Getting the Pre
Windows 2000 name for a domain
Hi,
I have a requirement to determine
themachines that are currently online for a particular domain. I use the
Net View command and give it a domain name such as:
Net View /Domain:DomName
SinceI know the Fully qualified
Domain name AAA.BBB.CCC then I use:-
Net View /Domain:AAA
and it normally works. However I have one client
that uses a different Pre Windows 2000 name (don't ask me why). I tried the
following bit of code to try and programmatically work out the Pre Windows
2000 name:-
Dim Sdou As
IADs Dim PropertyValue As
Variant Set Sdou =
GetObject("LDAP://DC=AAA,DC=BBB,DC=CCC")
For Each PropertyValue In
Sdou.GetEx("Name") If
PropertyValue ""
Then
MsgBox PropertyValue End
If Next
but it just returnedAAA.
So, is there a property in Active Directory that
returns the Pre Windows 2000 name?
Alternatively, is there anyway to determine the
machines that are online via AD, rather than via the Net View
command?
Alan Cuthbertson
RE: [ActiveDir] Getting the Pre Windows 2000 name for a domain
Title: RE: [ActiveDir] OT:Exchange 2003 SP1 bloat
You can get all of the pre-2K names of all domains in a
forest by looking at the nETBIOSName attribute of the crossref objects in the
partitions container of the configuration container. You want anything with
systemflags2.
You do not want to pick off the name attribute of the
domaindns object because if you have a disjoint namespace going on (DNS name
does not match NetBIOS name) then you will not get it right.
As for Net View, I believe that uses NetServerEnum which
enumerates the machines with server service registered, I think, with the
browser service. The browser service being a poor mechanism for finding really
anything in a larger environment with multiple subnets especially if you have
any multihomed machines or filtering rules. Also anyone that shuts down server
on their machine (or it otherwise failed to start) wouldn't show up.
From: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
[mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of SysPro
SupportSent: Sunday, August 21, 2005 1:54 AMTo:
[EMAIL PROTECTED]Subject: [ActiveDir] Getting the Pre
Windows 2000 name for a domain
Hi,
I have a requirement to determine themachines
that are currently online for a particular domain. I use the Net View
command and give it a domain name such as:
Net View /Domain:DomName
SinceI know the Fully qualified Domain
name AAA.BBB.CCC then I use:-
Net View /Domain:AAA
and it normally works. However I have one client
that uses a different Pre Windows 2000 name (don't ask me why). I tried the
following bit of code to try and programmatically work out the Pre Windows 2000
name:-
Dim Sdou As
IADs Dim PropertyValue As
Variant Set Sdou =
GetObject("LDAP://DC=AAA,DC=BBB,DC=CCC")
For Each PropertyValue In
Sdou.GetEx("Name") If
PropertyValue ""
Then
MsgBox PropertyValue End
If Next
but it just returnedAAA.
So, is there a property in Active Directory that
returns the Pre Windows 2000 name?
Alternatively, is there anyway to determine the
machines that are online via AD, rather than via the Net View
command?
Alan Cuthbertson
RE: [ActiveDir] Getting the Pre Windows 2000 name for a domain
Title: RE: [ActiveDir] OT:Exchange 2003 SP1 bloat
You could use some interesting threading ideas. Say pass
off machines to be enumerated to one control thread, it spawns up threads (up to
x threads which is configurable) to ping, the control thread watches how long
each thread runs for, if it exceeds yy ms then you terminate the thread or let
it time itself out but in the meanwhile you know the machine isn't out there,
the ones that return quick would be positives. You will need very little stack
for these threads that you fire up (very little any resources) so tune that down
and you could tune the number of threads up. If ~Eric catches this thread he may
beat on my idea or add to it. Of course that assumes written code and not
scripts.
I am not sure there is any good answer for a script here.
To positively get good info, a script would be too underpowered unless it is say
a perl script which would allow some of the good programmatic things you could
do.
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[mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of SysPro
SupportSent: Sunday, August 21, 2005 8:36 AMTo:
[EMAIL PROTECTED]Subject: Re: [ActiveDir] Getting the Pre
Windows 2000 name for a domain
Hi Michael,
Thanks for the response, But it isn't quite what I
want. The code you give gives the NetBios name of the
logged on user. I am trying to find the NetBios name
for another domain.
I have tried enumerating all machines on the domain
and then pinging them, but it takes too long. We have 20,000 machines, of which
10,000 are offline. Each ping to an offline machine takes 1 sec to time out, so
it takes over 3 hours! I was looking a for a quicker way
Alan C
- Original Message -
From:
Michael B.
Smith
To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Sent: Sunday, August 21, 2005 8:47
PM
Subject: RE: [ActiveDir] Getting the Pre
Windows 2000 name for a domain
As to the first question:
Dim objWSHNetwork
Set
objWSHNetwork = CreateObject ("WScript.Network")' get the
NetBIOS domain namestrNetBIOSDomain =
objWSHNetwork.UserDomainSet objWSHNetwork =
Nothing
As
to the second question, see
http://www.microsoft.com/technet/scriptcenter/scripts/ad/computer/cptrvb07.mspx
and
http://msdn.microsoft.com/library/default.asp?url="">
From: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
[mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of SysPro
SupportSent: Sunday, August 21, 2005 1:54 AMTo:
[EMAIL PROTECTED]Subject: [ActiveDir] Getting the Pre
Windows 2000 name for a domain
Hi,
I have a requirement to determine
themachines that are currently online for a particular domain. I use the
Net View command and give it a domain name such as:
Net View /Domain:DomName
SinceI know the Fully qualified
Domain name AAA.BBB.CCC then I use:-
Net View /Domain:AAA
and it normally works. However I have one client
that uses a different Pre Windows 2000 name (don't ask me why). I tried the
following bit of code to try and programmatically work out the Pre Windows
2000 name:-
Dim Sdou As
IADs Dim PropertyValue As
Variant Set Sdou =
GetObject("LDAP://DC=AAA,DC=BBB,DC=CCC")
For Each PropertyValue In
Sdou.GetEx("Name") If
PropertyValue ""
Then
MsgBox PropertyValue End
If Next
but it just returnedAAA.
So, is there a property in Active Directory that
returns the Pre Windows 2000 name?
Alternatively, is there anyway to determine the
machines that are online via AD, rather than via the Net View
command?
Alan Cuthbertson
