How do I get the domain name that a computer is on?

M

Mark Rae

In the case of NETWORD SERVICE the env var USERDOMAIN is an empty string.
And
there are cases where I do not have a client user (scheduled reports) so I
can't use the domain part of an authenticated user.
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Obviously, it's easy enough to get the machine name of the IIS server, but
to return the name of the domain that it's part of I think you'd have to use
ActiveDirectory...
 
M

Mark Rae

Any idea how? I've tried and this seems to be a very difficult problem.
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E, well this certainly works for me:

using (DirectorySearcher objSearcher = new DirectorySearcher())
{
strDomain = objSearcher.SearchRoot.Name.Substring(3);
}
 
M

Mark Rae

Is (string) objSearcher.SearchRoot.Properties["name"].Value;

legit (ie will always work)? Or better to use yours below? I want to make
sure whatever I use works on 100% of the system configurations out there.
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Sorry, but I don't know enough about it to be sure.

I suggest you post in microsoft.public.adsi.general - anything you are told
by Joe Kaplan you can take as gospel... :)
 

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