Tester wrote:
> On Sep 26, 3:29 pm, Meinolf Weber <meiweb(nospam)@gmx.de> wrote:
>
>>Hello Tester,
>>
>>Hope this gives you a small understanding of the same names.
>>
>>In windows you have some environment variables, that you can see with the
>>SET command on a command prompt.
>>
>>When you logon to a domain it provide the following environment variables:
>>
>>COMPUTERNAME - The computer name.
>>USERNAME - The UserID.
>>LOGONSERVER - The authenticating domain controller ComputerName, preceeded
>>with a \\.
>>USERDOMAIN - The downlevel domain name (Windows NT 4.0 style).
>>
>>When you logon onto a workgroup (local machine) you see:
>>
>>COMPUTERNAME - The computer name.
>>USERNAME - The UserID.
>>LOGONSERVER - The authenticating computer, preceeded with a \\. This is
>>the local machine, equal with computer name.
>>USERDOMAIN - This is the local ComputerName.
>>
>>So theire are not 2 names, it is one computer name, just displayed in different
>>ways.
>>
>>Event id 5719
>>The machine authenticates against itself, if it can not reach the DC for
>>authentication. It uses then the cached credentials on the local computer
>>and in this case the "second" name you see. It's the local cached database,
>>so that you can login with your domain useraccount, the domain user password
>>and the domain name in the log on to field. I am not an engineer but hope
>>this gives you a small clarification what is going on.
>>
>>Best regards
>>
>>Meinolf Weber
>>Disclaimer: This posting is provided "AS IS" with no warranties, and confers
>>no rights.
>>
>>
>>
>>
>>>Hi there,
>>>For some reason I seem to have 2 workstation names on my W2K
>>>Professional.
>>>One is in My Computer, Properties, Network Identification or by
>>>issuing hostname command, let us call it workstation1 and one comes up
>>>when I issue the following command:
>>>echo %logonserver% command let us call it workstation2. How can I
>>>remove one name?
>>>I am also getting error 5719 on it for some reason it is not
>>>authenticating with the domain controller but with local machine's
>>>second name.
>>>Hosts and Lmhosts do not have the 2nd name.
>>>In ipconfig I do not have any DNS/Wins servers for some reason, I am
>>>on an AD network.
>>>Thanks a lot, T- Hide quoted text -
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>>- Show quoted text -
>
>
> Hi there,
> Thanks for the info but does not answer my question. I always get 2
> workstation names, I only log in to the domain, no workgroup.
> Computername is same as logonserver variable "workstation1" while in
> network properties or hostname I have a totally different name
> "workstation2", how can I make sure is only one name-for ex.
> workstation2-, where in the registry should I remove the extra name?
> Probably my windows is corrupt.
> Thanks a lot, T
The hostname is usually the same as computername, if it isn't then
someone may have made a mistake or changed it when they setup the TCP/IP
properties DNS entry. As for the %logonserver% variable there is a
known bug when login on to domains and executing logon scripts where the
logonserver variable is not properly set and the variable returns the
computername variable instead of the logonserver variable. I don't have
the bug information at my fingertips but if your search on Microsoft.com
you should be able to find more information about it, for most parts it
doesn't cause any problems unless you want to run specific scripts or
batch files that rely on the logonserver variable for its routine.
John
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