The following command-line tools can be used to manage Active Directory CSVDE Import and export Active Directory data using comma-separated format. Dsadd Add users, groups, computers, contacts, and organizational units to Active Directory. Dsmod Modify an existing object of a specific type in the directory. The types of objects that can be modified are: users, groups, computers, servers, contacts, and organizational units. Dsrm Remove objects of the specified type from Active Directory. Dsmove Rename an object without moving it in the directory tree, or move an object from its current location in the directory to a new location within a single domain controller. (For cross-domain moves, use the Movetree command-line tool.) Dsquery Query and find a list of objects in the directory using specified search criteria. Use in a generic mode to query for any type of object or in a specialized mode to query for for selected object types. The specific types of objects that can be queried through this command are: computers, contacts, subnets, groups, organizational units, sites, servers and users. Dsget Display selected attributes of specific object types in Active Directory. Attributes of the following object types can be viewed: computers, contacts, subnets, groups, organizational units, servers, sites, and users. LDIFDE Ceate, modify, and delete directory objects. This tool can also be used to extend the schema, export Active Directory user and group information to other applications or services, and populate Active Directory with data from other directory services. Ntdsutil General purpose Active Directory management tool. Use Ntdsutil to perform database maintenance of Active Directory, to manage single master operations, and remove metadata left behind by domain controllers that were removed from the network without being properly uninstalled.
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http://technet.microsoft.com/en-us/library/cc759550(WS.10).aspx If the client site name is known, the client DNS query specifies the site. DNS returns the IP addresses of domain controllers that match the DNS query. The client Net Logon service sends an LDAP UDP message to one or more of the domain controllers that have been returned by DNS in order to determine whether any of the specified domain controllers are running and support the specified domain. ---------- Chily Active Directory Query helps out and above all its a freeware tool: http://www.chilysoftware.com/active-directory-query.html
Any Microsoft OS which is based on 2000 platform winxp,win2000,windows 7, vista
FTP Directory Browsing
In order to mount a drive, if it is a network drive, you must have an NFS server installed and an NFS client on the machine you wish to mount the directory for. The NFS server will export the file system to the network, and the NFS client machine will mount it. To mount it on a client machine, create or use an empty directory. Then, using the 'mount' command, indicate the server name and directory on the server and the mount point of the client. For example: mount tarzan:/opt/testing/data /mnt Will mount a directory from the 'tarzan' server called /opt/testing/data under the /mnt directory of the client. So when a client looks at /mnt, they are really looking at /opt/testing/data on the server.
LDAP (Lightweight Directory Access Protocol)
What is active directory (AD)= Definition of: Active DirectoryAn advanced, hierarchical directory service that comes with Windows 2000 servers. It is LDAP compliant and built on the Internet's Domain Naming System (DNS). Workgroups are given domain names, just like Web sites, and any LDAP-compliant client (Windows, Mac, Unix, etc.) can gain access to it.
Token Ring is an active topology - each packet must be recreated as it goes from client to client.
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