Questions tagged [domain]
A collection of computers or other networked resources.
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Hosting wildcard domains such as *.mydomain.com on Windows Azure without using redirections
I have an ASP.NET MVC app which offers wildcard domains to my users to personalize their login urls.
I'd like to host this on Windows Azure. But is it possible to keep the wildcard domains?
I've ...
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can't access sub-subdomain: DNS_PROBE_FINISHED_NXDOMAIN
I can't access to sub-subdomains.
For example http://electricien.synerciel.fr is working.
But, for sub-subdomains http://electricite-lemonnier.electricien.synerciel.fr/ returns ...
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Windows Server 2008 R2 hangs when Editing folder permissions
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The server in question is a member of a domain.
This is a brand new server, freshly installed.
I can log into this server using any domain user (which tells me that on some level it is ...
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Automatically refresh credential after password change
Lets say we have around 300 Windows XP machines on our ActiveDirectory domain that are used for processing something. Each has an account which is patterned on the machines name. As these are ...
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Multiple domains (including www-"subdomain") on apache?
after messing around a while I decided to ask here:
I have a vhost and want to use 2 domains on this server. My apache configuration file looks something like this:
NameVirtualHost *
<VirtualHost ...
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Using "Active Directory Users and Computers" for a different domain
How can I manage a domain with the "Active Directory Users and Computers" from a computer that is not on that domain? I realize I'll need some domain admin (or less) credentials, but that's fine.
I ...
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Can I take a domain pc hard drive and put it in the exact same hardware and leave it as it is on the domain without running any sys prep?
I have a workstation in a domain that has failed with hardware related issues. The actual hard drive is fine and is not the issue with with the workstation. Since we have spares of these workstations, ...
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DNS Round Robin: Multiple Nameservers VS Multiple A Records?
Note: This is a follow-up to my previous question regarding DNS Failover.
The Goal: to make the client's web browser select the next available server if one is down instantly.
I've read somewhere ...
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Deny requests for other domains in Apache 2
Let's say I have xy.com running on a server powered by Apache. It's the default virtual host.
Now someone has rewritten his hosts file to redirect yz.com to my server's IP. As my server doesn't know a ...
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Change Local Group Policies remotely on Windows workstations outside Windows domain
Is it possible to change Local Group Policies on Windows workstations remotely outside a Windows domain? Furthermore, can a script be written that would change GP on several workstations one by one?
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Do I need a dedicated IP address for each SSL certificate?
I am hosting multiple domains on a single AWS instance. The domains all share the same underlying codebase, but we provide "white label" services on various domains. Each of the domains (foo.com, bar....
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Locked out of DC and domain admin accounts via GPO
I'm currently locked out of my domain controller and unable to log onto domain computers using accounts who are members of the domain admins group due to the incorrect application of a GPO at the top ...
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Availability at risk due to one offline Domain Name Server?
A domain can have plenty of name servers registered at there domain registrar. The name servers are picked randomly and not like expected primary first, secondary second and so on.
Knowing that, ...
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Permanently blocking a domain in iptables
Suppose I want to block Facebook permanently. To do this, I have followed following processes:
#host -t a www.facebook.com
Sample output:
www.facebook.com has address 69.171.224.40
Find CIDR
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Domain name change with minimum seo impact
I am owner of an existing (3 yr. old) domain http://www.22shrutiharmonium.com and my website appears at the top of the search results in case of some search phrases like "22 shruti" , "22 shruti ...
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Setting Up Customer-Specific Domains
I can go to Fog Creek's web site, setup a new account, and they will instantly assign me a URL such as 'mycompany.fogbugz.com' (where 'mycompany' is something I make up, as opposed to some value ...
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How to clone, disjoin & rename a Windows 2008 R2 VM offline, then rejoin domain online
I have a Windows 2008 R2 domain joined server, which should be cloned as test server in the same domain!
There is an MSSQL 2012 instance and Team Foundation Server 2013 installed, but this shouldn't ...
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Fixing typos in user-entered email addresses
We see some typo domains in our mail queue from time to time and I have been thinking of using our internal DNS server to correct these people's mistakes.
Some examples from the current mail queue:
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How can I tell if a certain Active Directory login has been used today?
How can I tell if a somebody used the login 'Accounts' today to log into a pc in my Active Directory domain? It seems to be causing errors if 2 people are logged in using the same username and I don'...
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Dns - wildcard vs. cname subdomains
Alright I have to admit I'm confused with how DNS works. I've always just added things until they worked, and now it's time to learn how they work.
So one confusing thing to me is that there's sort ...
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SQL Server 2008 Fail-over Cluster
I am using SQL Server 2008 Enterprise and I want to install SQL Server 2008 fail-over Cluster. I am wondering,
(1) do I need an active directory domain?
(2) what is the minimal number of machines do ...
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Does hitting this command in unix have a rate limit?
$whois somedomain.com
What is the limit on this?
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Who joined a computer to a domain
Is there an easy way to determine what user account was used to join a computer to a domain?
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Access to multiple domains with RSAT?
Using RSAT for Windows 10 on a technician computer. I know that RSAT allows access to AD admin tools in the domain the computer is a member of. But is there a way to access multiple domains via this ...
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Why can't I whois '.google' domains?
I know of only two domains under the TLD google (owned by Google, obviously):
nic.google
lers.google
However, neither of these give valid output when used with whois:
$ whois nic.google
No whois ...
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Adding multiple domains in active directory
I have installed Ad Domain services and created a root domain with dcpromo.exe. i would like to do 2 things now.
I would like to create child domains inside that root domain.
I would like to create a ...
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Why can the primary record for a domain not be a CNAME record? [duplicate]
I have read on the internet that the primary record for a domain (eg example.com) should be an A record, and that bad things happen if you use a CNAME record.
I work for a web company that has ...
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There are currently no logon servers available to service the logon request
We are currently facing a serious problem after we rolled out Windows 7 in our sales force:
Several users reported that they cannot log into their laptop because the following message appears:
There ...
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'The'account is not authorized to login from this station' error while trying to acccess network share
Clients are getting this error when trying to access network shares on one of our 2008 R2 servers:
The account is not authorized to login from this station.
The problem started a few weeks ago. It ...
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Is a gradual migration from a workgroup to a domain possible?
I have a small setup of around ~30 computers [some of which are located at a remote office] that I need to get migrated over from a workgroup to a domain to maintain my sanity. The previous admin didn'...
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Find computers in domain with static IPs - PowerShell
let me start by saying I'm not good at all in writing scripts or troubleshooting them, thus me being here :)
I'm trying to find all the computers in a windows domain network that are using static IP ...
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How to allow domain groups access to SQL server?
I'm sure this is a simple problem, bu I've looked for days...
I have a SQL server that is part of a domain. The domain has many many users.
I want to allow select permissions to anyone within a ...
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Subdomain on another host (another IP, another provider)
Let's say my main domain is domain.net and i'm using it on a Media Temple (gs) server.
I have my blog on the subdomain blog.domain.net
Now I want to host my blog on my new VPS from Linode.
So, I ...
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2 Domains on 1 server
I'm running Debian and I don't have a control panel or anything.
Right now, I'm simply pointing my domain to the server IP and it's going to the root, but I am looking to add another domain, so how ...
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Setting up domain on VPS
I recently rented a virtual private server, I have installed apache with php and everything and it works fine, but I'm not sure how to setup my domain.
I have a domain at godaddy, so do i need to ...
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Difference between domain, domain controller and active directory?
I am very confused about this three terms. I know that :
Active Directory is a set of service used to store information about a computer network
Domain Controller is a server computer used to run ...
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Does SOA record need to be updated to alter nameservers
My domain registrar has a top level SOA record for my domain which is unchangeable and two NS records pointing to the default nameservers for the registrar. If I want to update my nameservers do I ...
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How to set hostname.domainname from dhcp
Running Centos 6.x using dhcp, we want to set the hostname to be FQDN that's obtained from a combination of dhcp options.
As an example if I have two dhcp options
option host-name "foobar";
option ...
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Can MS Exchange provide a solution for multiple domains?
Is it possible to have an Exchange Server solution that allows for multiple email domains? I would like to make use of push email but also want to retain the scheduling features of Outlook/Exchange ...
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Configuring postfix to handle email on multiple domains without being an open relay
There was a question about open relays asked previously.
I have a new CentOS 6 server handling multiple domains for several customers.
On the previous server (which was running CentOS 4), I had ...
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Can I force a workstation to use a specific domain controller?
I'm on a domain that I can't control the domain controllers on, but I can control my systems. All the domain controllers are part of one site, and that cannot change.
However, one of the domain ...
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Is it possible for a sub-directory to be on another server?
How can I have a sub-directory under a domain point to another server? For example, example.com/myscript/ should load the script located on a different server than example.com. This can be achieved by ...
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Share folder and access this folder on different domain
the following situations:
i have two pc's. My work desktop with XP prof and logged on in domain mywork.com. This desktop also has two network card. one for logging on the mywork.com domain and using ...
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Getting no servers could be reached when using host, nslookup and dig
I'm following this answer How do I get the mx records for a domain from *nix command line? but every time I get an error:
;; connection timed out; no servers could be reached
Error Image
Can ...
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DC locator service (Server 2008R2/2012) - what triggers switching to alternative DC
I'm wondering how frequently DC locator checks availability of domain controller it is connected to. I assume it picks domain controller upon startup, but I'm not sure about the following:
- How often ...
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Is there a way to force group membership changes to be refreshed on clients?
I'm working with a Windows Server 2012 R2 domain controller which is being used primarily as a file server. The clients on this network are mostly not domain users, but instead use domain user ...
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Apache redirect domain and all subdomains
I have an Apache configuration setup with multiple virtual hosts as subdomains. I have just purchased a new domain name, and I want all requests to this domain name to redirect to the new one, ...
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nginx, multiple domains, ssl support for clients without SNI
I want to support SSL for clients which lack of SNI support (IE/FF/Safari on win XP, Android < 2.2, and others).
The solution I picked was to have nginx listen on separate port for each ...
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Is @ the same as the IP address for @ in the MX record entry of a zone file?
I have the following configuration in my DNS Zone. I want to switch the @ record to a different IP address, but I want to keep the MX records the same. Please note the IP address has been changed to ...
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local admin vs domain admin on a domain controller
I would like to create a group policy to set a specific password for all local administrator users. Now even though you can't manage local users on a domain controller ("This snap-in cannot be used on ...