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A collection of computers or other networked resources.

A collection of computers or other networked resources within an organisation. A domain is identified by a domain name. Domains can be divided into hierarchical sub-domains.

A Microsoft domain is such a collection, often managed by the Active Directory product. The centralized authority for a Microsoft domain is one or more Domain Controllers. These Domain Controllers are responsible for authentication and other security services within the domain.

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Hostname vs domain name when using dynamic DNS?

I've setup a dynamic DNS service with DynDNS, let's call it: foobar.dyndns.net When I setup a Linux server, what should be my hostname and domain name?? For instance, if I setup Slackware Linux, the installation program asks for them, and if I enter…
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Set up multiple servers behind a NAT

I am currently trying to set up a network with both a secure webserver and an internal openvpn server. The webserver is running windows 2008 and the vpn network is running the Access server from OpenVPN. The problem that i'm having is that I want…
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What does mean domain in SID: S-1-5-21domain-500

I found following page with documentation: http://support.microsoft.com/kb/243330. Now there is a mysterious domain string in SID. I understand that when I want to use this sid with this mysterious string I should replace it with a correct domain…
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Samba + LDAP: smbclient -L localhost fails (NT_STATUS_CONNECTION_REFUSED)

I'm following Tuxnetworks tutorial, at the last line of the first part and I'm getting this error: sysadmin@samba:~$ sudo smbclient -L localhost Enter root's password: Connection to localhost failed (Error NT_STATUS_CONNECTION_REFUSED) I've read a…
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Back up server in separate domain

I currently have a backup server on one domain, say domain A. This backup server has Backup exec 11d installed on it, and is responsible for backing up numerous other servers in the same domain. I now have a server on another domain which requires…
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Windows 7 domain join fails

Here is the scenario: I have several(17) Windows 7 machines joined to a Samba domain. We have a situation where the Win 7 machines need to be renamed. To accomplish this this is the procedure I have been following: 1) Take machine out of the…
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Problems with GoDaddy domain using Google Apps solution

Some time ago using Google Apps, I bought the domain bindsolution.com. I saw it was a field of GoDaddy. Today I hired the services of GoDaddy hosting but it seems that both accounts are not the same. I need to transfer my domain to be used with the…
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Can't login to domain

I have a group of machines that are all plugged into the same switch and all but one machine is able to log in to the domain. I get the following message: there are currently no logon servers available to service the logon request I've tried…
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database server on domain?

Are there any significant drawbacks to joining a SQL Server machine to the domain (i.e. security, performance, etc)? Our box is currently off the domain so we just manage users locally, but we were thinking that security may be a little stronger…
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Can't log anymore with RDP on my server after adding it in my domain

I have two dedicated with Windows 2008 R2 servers which I am using for Web hosting. One Server A is a domain controller, Server B should simply be added to the domain controlled by Server A. So I RDP'd into Server B and changed the system settings…
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Would I have a performance gain if I list entries in my hosts file to domains that are pointing to the server machine?

I must admit, I'm a software engineer and this stuff is not really one of my areas of expertise. I have a Web Application in .NET 4 which connects to various web services hosted on the same machine. We call these web services using publicly…
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Unable to access internal network through PfSense WAN port

Our branch office is unable to connect to our internal network for some reason. However we can connect to the branch office domain controller from behind PfSense. The following is our setup: |Branch DC - 192.168.0.101 …
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Is there a web admin interface to manage MS Exchanage 2010 / AD over the web?

I run an AD domain with Exchanage 2010 for a small business. The Exchange server is authoritative for several domains that I host for clients. Some of these clients have many email addresses for their domains that they want forwarded various…
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Point domain to rails route

This might not be possible, but I have a nginx server running with one domain x.com, and I have y.com that's pointing to the same server, but I would like that domain to end up running a rails route. So x.com runs /, and y.com runs x.com/2/ - not a…
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Can access from IP but not from domain

I can access a site from an IP but can't access from a particular domain name. I have other domain names pointing to the same server and they all working. This server is a Windows web server 2008. What could the problem be? What steps should I take…
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