Differentiate workgroup system from domain member under Cygwin

Sylvain RICHARD sylvainr@netcourrier.com
Fri Jan 22 13:30:00 GMT 2010


Corinna Vinschen wrote:
> On Jan 22 10:34, Christoph Herdeg wrote:
>   
>> So question is more if there is any place on a windows system, a file or a
>> directory or an entry in a file that exists only if that machine is a
>> domain member?
>>     
>
> There are certainly multiple methods to fetch this information.  One of
> them is, for instance:
>
>   bash$ net config workstation | grep -q 'Domain DNS' \
> 	&& echo domain-member || echo standalone-machine
>
>
> Corinna
>   
Of course you should be aware that localization kicks in. On a French 
Win Server 2k3 machine I get
"Nom DNS du domaine de la station de travail"

Good luck,

-- 
Sylvain RICHARD


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