Reg value for the machine account's domain

[Paul D.]

Can anyone tell me where the registry value for the machine account's Domain
is located? Thanks in advance...

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Paul D.

 

[Jerold Schulman]

Can anyone tell me where the registry value for the machine account's Domain
is located? Thanks in advance...

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Paul D.

I believe you match the data value in
HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE\Microsoft\Windows NT\CurrentVersion\Winlogon\CachePrimaryDomain
against a Value Name in HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE\Microsoft\Windows NT\CurrentVersion\Winlogon\DomainCache
to extract the full domain name.



Jerold Schulman
Windows: General MVP
JSI, Inc.
http://www.jsiinc.com

 

[Torgeir Bakken \(MVP\)]

Can anyone tell me where the registry value for the machine
account's Domain is located? Thanks in advance...

Hi

As far as I know, there is no "safe" place in registry to read this from.

Parse the output from "net.exe config workstation" in a batch file, or
use VBScript/WMI.


Batch file (do *not* remove the spaces in "workstation domain "):

'--------------------8<----------------------
@echo off
for /f "tokens=3" %%a in (
'net.exe config workstation^|find.exe /i "workstation domain "') do set domain=%%a
echo %domain%
'--------------------8<----------------------



VBScript/WMI:

'--------------------8<----------------------
sNode = "." ' use "." for local computer
Set oWMI = GetObject("winmgmts:" _
& "{impersonationLevel=impersonate}!\\" & sNode & "\root\cimv2")
Set colComputer = oWMI.ExecQuery _
("Select DomainRole, Domain from Win32_ComputerSystem")
For Each oComputer in colComputer
iDR = oComputer.DomainRole
sName = oComputer.Domain
Next

If iDR = 0 Or iDR = 2 Then
WScript.Echo "Computer is in workgroup " & sName
Else
WScript.Echo "Computer is in domain " & sName
End If
'--------------------8<----------------------

 

[Torgeir Bakken \(MVP\)]

I believe you match the data value in
HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE\Microsoft\Windows NT\CurrentVersion\Winlogon\CachePrimaryDomain
against a Value Name in HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE\Microsoft\Windows NT\CurrentVersion\Winlogon\DomainCache
to extract the full domain name.

Hi

But I would think this would give you the domain for the user
account, and not necessarily the machine account domain, right?