How do you programmatically determine whether a Windows computer is a member of a domain?

Question

I need a way to determine whether the computer running my program is joined to any domain. It doesn\'t matter what specific domain it is part of, just whether it is connecte

Answer 1

Straight from Microsoft:

How To Determine If a Windows NT/Windows 2000 Computer Is a Domain Member

This approach uses the Windows API. From the article summary:

This article describes how to determine if a computer that is running Windows NT 4.0 or Windows 2000 is a member of a domain, is a member of a workgroup, or is a stand-alone computer using the Local Security Authority APIs.

The article also provides sample code for a small program that outputs whether the computer the program is running on is part of a domain, part of a workgroup, or a standalone computer.