Get NetBIOS Domain of the computer

[JSchmitt]

Hello,

I would like to get the NETBIOS Domain of the computer the script is running on.

There´s no problem to get the Domain of the logged on user, but the computer

domain might be different.

Does anyone got an suggestion, how to get this value?

Thanx in advance for any suggestions!

Jochen

[Zedna]

I'm not expert on Domains and such but much usefull informations can be retrieved by WMI

Look at MSDN

and search for WMI at this forum ...

[PerryRaptor]

Macro @computername

or if you prefer, the command prompt:> hostname

[JSchmitt]

@Zedna: WMI wolud retrieve the FQDN AFAIK

@PerryRaptor: I would like to retrieve the NetBIOS Domain name of my computer and not only the name of my computer

Thanx in advance

Jochen

[lod3n]

Try this UDF:

Func _GetNetBIOSDomain()
    local $objRootDSE = ObjGet("LDAP://RootDSE")
    local $strDNSDomain = $objRootDSE.Get("defaultNamingContext")
    local $objTrans = ObjCreate("NameTranslate")
    $objTrans.Init(3, "") ; 3 = ADS_NAME_INITTYPE_GC
    $objTrans.Set(1, $strDNSDomain) ; 1=ADS_NAME_TYPE_1779
    local $strNetBIOSDomain = $objTrans.Get(3) ; 3=ADS_NAME_TYPE_NT4
    return StringLeft($strNetBIOSDomain, StringLen($strNetBIOSDomain) - 1)
EndFunc

ConsoleWrite("NetBIOS Domain Name: " & _GetNetBIOSDomain() & @CRLF)

[JSchmitt]

Thank you lod3n!

That works fine!

Did you know, if that also works with an Windows NT4 domain?

Best regards

Jochen

[lod3n]

It ought to, but I haven't tried it on one.

[lod3n]

You should compare the output of the UDF, with this too - it might be producing the same result:

Opt("ExpandEnvStrings", 1)
ConsoleWrite(EnvGet("USERDOMAIN") & @crlf)

[JSchmitt]

Hallo lod3n,

now I can test it only in a single domain environment.

I posted that i would like to retrieve the computer domain name and not the userdomain.

Does your script does this?

If i would like to retrieve the userdomain, i can have a look the the registry.

Thanks in advance

Jochen

[lod3n]

Ah, sorry about that. What you are asking for (now I understand) is exceedingly easy:

$objWinNTSysInfo = ObjCreate("WinNTSystemInfo")
ConsoleWrite($objWinNTSysInfo.DomainName & @crlf)

This will work on Windows 2000 or above, or NT with DSClient installed:

http://support.microsoft.com/kb/288358

According to that article, possibly also Win98, but I'm not sure, and can't test that.

[Valiante]

Sorry for dragging up such an old thread, but that didn't work for me. When running as a user other than the logged in user, the above still returns the user domain, not the Computer domain. Here's some very simple AutoIt code which will return the Computer domain;

$objSystemInfo = ObjCreate("ADSystemInfo")
$domain = $objSystemInfo.DomainShortName
MsgBox(0, "Domain", $domain)