Logon or validation server

Hi all, first time poster - some time reader. I have what
should be a fairly simple question yet am having trouble
finding an answer.

Is there any way to tell from a Win98SE client which BDC
was used for network authentication? Say, an environment
variable one can set or a registry value?

We're having some logon script issues and trying to track
them down now. I suspect a rogue BDC somewhere on the
network.
thanks in advance!
OG

"Owen Gilmore" <(E-Mail Removed)> wrote in message
news:011501c3ca76$e68874c0$(E-Mail Removed)...
> Hi all, first time poster - some time reader. I have what
> should be a fairly simple question yet am having trouble
> finding an answer.
>
> Is there any way to tell from a Win98SE client which BDC
> was used for network authentication? Say, an environment
> variable one can set or a registry value?
>
> We're having some logon script issues and trying to track
> them down now. I suspect a rogue BDC somewhere on the
> network.
> thanks in advance!
> OG

I don't think this information is available under Win9x. A simple
way of making it visible would be to add this line to your domain
logon script:

echo set Domainname=YourDomain>c:\SetDomainname.bat

Later on you can execute c:\SetDomainname.bat in order to set
the %Domainname% environmental variable.

Since Windows 98 doesn't authenticate to a domain, it doesn't authenticate
to a domain controller either. It only confirms that an ID and password are
valid. You can easily determine this from a Windows NT, 2000 or XP client
however.

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"Owen Gilmore" <(E-Mail Removed)> wrote in message
news:011501c3ca76$e68874c0$(E-Mail Removed)...
> Hi all, first time poster - some time reader. I have what
> should be a fairly simple question yet am having trouble
> finding an answer.
>
> Is there any way to tell from a Win98SE client which BDC
> was used for network authentication? Say, an environment
> variable one can set or a registry value?
>
> We're having some logon script issues and trying to track
> them down now. I suspect a rogue BDC somewhere on the
> network.
> thanks in advance!
> OG

On Wed, 24 Dec 2003 15:37:31 -0800, "Owen Gilmore"
<(E-Mail Removed)> wrote:

>
>Is there any way to tell from a Win98SE client which BDC
>was used for network authentication? Say, an environment
>variable one can set or a registry value?
>

I saved this message a while back which might be appropriate.


Jim

From (E-Mail Removed) Tue Aug 20 15:47:52 2002
Newsgroups: microsoft.public.win98.networking
Subject: Re: How to lookup a PDC from win98?
From: "Bryan Jordan" <(E-Mail Removed)>
Date: Tue, 20 Aug 2002 07:47:52 -0700

Add the following registry key to the Win9x workstation
and you will be presented with a message box during logon
indication what server you have authenticated to:

HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\Network\Logon

Create a DWORD value = DomainLogonMessage
Set the data = 1