What is netlogon

[Samantha]

What is Netlogon?

 

[Pegasus \(MVP\)]

It's the name of a share on servers, where the logon
script resides.

 

[Ray at]

Or it's a service that handles authentication by passing credentials to a
domain controller in a domain environment.

 

[Samantha]

Thank you both

-----Original Message-----
Or it's a service that handles authentication by passing credentials to a
domain controller in a domain environment.

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Ray at home
Microsoft ASP MVP





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[Bill Peele [MS]]

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From: "Samantha" <[email protected]>
Subject: What is netlogon
Date: Thu, 12 Feb 2004 19:33:43 -0800
Newsgroups: microsoft.public.win2000.general

What is Netlogon?

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Samantha,

Inside Microsoft Windows 2000 Third Edition by David A. Soloman and Mark E. Russinovich describes Netlogon on page
492 as:

Net Logon Service (Netlogon): A Win32 service (\Winnt\System32\Netlogon.dll) that runs inside Lsass and responds to
Microsoft LAN Manager 2 Windows NT (pre-Windows 2000) network logon requests. Authentication is handled as local
logons are, by sending them to Lsass for verification. Netlogon also has a locator service built into it for locating domain
controllers.

Bill Peele
Microsoft Enterprise Support

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