Computer name not displaying correctly.

[pez]

Under System Properties>Computer Name [Tab] - Where it displays [Full
computer name:], it does not display the domain part of the name. For
example if the computer were named computer1 on the microsoft.com
domain: It doesn't display as computer1.microsoft.com it only shows
computer1. It does however reflect the correct domain on the line
below. I have tried disjoining and rejoining to the domain. All the
other clients on this network display 'computername.domain'. Any ideas
as to why this XP pro client is not?

 

[Shenan Stanley]

Under System Properties>Computer Name [Tab] - Where it displays
[Full computer name:], it does not display the domain part of the
name. For example if the computer were named computer1 on the
microsoft.com domain: It doesn't display as
computer1.microsoft.com it only shows computer1. It does however
reflect the correct domain on the line below. I have tried
disjoining and rejoining to the domain. All the other clients on
this network display 'computername.domain'. Any ideas as to why
this XP pro client is not?

Not really - nor do I see any real problem with it...?
As long as it is a member of the domain, getting the domain policies, etc...

Is there some other problem this is a symptom of you have not mentioned?

 

[pez]

There doesn't seem to be any problems as a result. It just that I'm a
little anal and I couldn't understand why this particular client was
not behaving like the others. On another note (because you happened to
mention it). What is the easiest way to tell what group policies are
being applied to a domain client? There have been a couple
inconsistancies on the network here and it seems like not all the
policies are beeing applied to some clients. It not that these clients
aren't getting any policies (because they definately are) but like I
said there are some things that don't seem to be applying correctly. I
didn't setup the GP objects on this network. Is there a tool that you
can run on the local machine that will tell you what GP's are applied
to that client? Thanks

Under System Properties>Computer Name [Tab] - Where it displays
[Full computer name:], it does not display the domain part of the
name. For example if the computer were named computer1 on the
microsoft.com domain: It doesn't display as
computer1.microsoft.com it only shows computer1. It does however
reflect the correct domain on the line below. I have tried
disjoining and rejoining to the domain. All the other clients on
this network display 'computername.domain'. Any ideas as to why
this XP pro client is not?

Not really - nor do I see any real problem with it...?
As long as it is a member of the domain, getting the domain policies, etc...

Is there some other problem this is a symptom of you have not mentioned?

 

[Shenan Stanley]

Under System Properties>Computer Name [Tab] - Where it displays
[Full computer name:], it does not display the domain part of the
name. For example if the computer were named computer1 on the
microsoft.com domain: It doesn't display as
computer1.microsoft.com it only shows computer1. It does however
reflect the correct domain on the line below. I have tried
disjoining and rejoining to the domain. All the other clients on
this network display 'computername.domain'. Any ideas as to why
this XP pro client is not?

Not really - nor do I see any real problem with it...?
As long as it is a member of the domain, getting the domain
policies, etc...

Is there some other problem this is a symptom of you have not
mentioned?

There doesn't seem to be any problems as a result. It just that
I'm a little anal and I couldn't understand why this particular
client was not behaving like the others. On another note (because
you happened to mention it). What is the easiest way to tell what
group policies are being applied to a domain client? There have
been a couple inconsistancies on the network here and it seems like
not all the policies are beeing applied to some clients. It not
that these clients aren't getting any policies (because they
definately are) but like I said there are some things that don't
seem to be applying correctly. I didn't setup the GP objects on
this network. Is there a tool that you can run on the local
machine that will tell you what GP's are applied to that client?

On the machine in question...

Start button --> RUN --> CMD --> OK

GPRESULT

Press <ENTER>.


Alternative to being on the machine... Use the PSEXEC SysInternals tool to
remotely execute the GPRESULT command and pipe the results to a text file on
its system drive for you to copy where ever you like. Then you can read it
at your leisure.

 

[pez]

Thank you. That is exactly what I was looking for.

Under System Properties>Computer Name [Tab] - Where it displays
[Full computer name:], it does not display the domain part of the
name. For example if the computer were named computer1 on the
microsoft.com domain: It doesn't display as
computer1.microsoft.com it only shows computer1. It does however
reflect the correct domain on the line below. I have tried
disjoining and rejoining to the domain. All the other clients on
this network display 'computername.domain'. Any ideas as to why
this XP pro client is not?

Not really - nor do I see any real problem with it...?
As long as it is a member of the domain, getting the domain
policies, etc...

Is there some other problem this is a symptom of you have not
mentioned?

There doesn't seem to be any problems as a result. It just that
I'm a little anal and I couldn't understand why this particular
client was not behaving like the others. On another note (because
you happened to mention it). What is the easiest way to tell what
group policies are being applied to a domain client? There have
been a couple inconsistancies on the network here and it seems like
not all the policies are beeing applied to some clients. It not
that these clients aren't getting any policies (because they
definately are) but like I said there are some things that don't
seem to be applying correctly. I didn't setup the GP objects on
this network. Is there a tool that you can run on the local
machine that will tell you what GP's are applied to that client?

On the machine in question...

Start button --> RUN --> CMD --> OK

GPRESULT

Press <ENTER>.


Alternative to being on the machine... Use the PSEXEC SysInternals tool to
remotely execute the GPRESULT command and pipe the results to a text file on
its system drive for you to copy where ever you like. Then you can read it
at your leisure.