Machine's domain name in .NET?

Question

There gotta be an easy way to do this, I can\'t believe there\'s none. I have scanned through net and found, like, 20 different methods to find in which domain current user is,

Answer 1

Using GetCurrentDomain is the same as Environment.UserDomainName, which works incorrectly if your program is running on a domain computer as a non-domain user. I've used the following code:

try
{
    return System.DirectoryServices.ActiveDirectory.Domain.GetComputerDomain().Name;
}
catch (Exception)
{
    return Environment.UserDomainName;
}

Answer 2

System.Environment.UserDomainName

Answer 3

I work on a project where users could be anywhere; non-domain users on a domain machine, users on a non-domain machine, not directly connected to the domain on a third party network, etc. so depending on AD is already a non-starter.

System.Net.NetworkInformation.IPGlobalProperties.GetIPGlobalProperties().DomainName is far more reliable under all of these conditions.

http://blogs.msdn.com/b/trobbins/archive/2006/01/04/509347.aspx

https://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/system.net.networkinformation.ipglobalproperties.domainname(v=vs.110).aspx?cs-save-lang=1&cs-lang=cpp#code-snippet-2

Imports System.DirectoryServices
Imports System.Net.NetworkInformation

Public Class Form1

    Private Sub Button1_Click(sender As Object, e As EventArgs) Handles Button1.Click
        Try
            MsgBox("Domain: " & ActiveDirectory.Domain.GetComputerDomain.Name)
        Catch ex As Exception
            MsgBox(ex.GetType.ToString & ": " & ex.Message)
        End Try
    End Sub

    Private Sub Button2_Click(sender As Object, e As EventArgs) Handles Button2.Click
        Try
            MsgBox("Domain: " & IPGlobalProperties.GetIPGlobalProperties().DomainName)
        Catch ex As Exception
            MsgBox(ex.GetType.ToString & ": " & ex.Message)
        End Try
    End Sub

End Class

Answer 4

System.DirectoryServices.ActiveDirectory.Domain.GetComputerDomain() wraps DsGetDcName which will search the network for a domain controller even if the machine is not part of a domain. (see remarks)

As alternative to NetGetJoinInformation you could use GetComputerNameEx with the COMPUTER_NAME_FORMAT.ComputerNameDnsDomain flag to get the full DNS domain name.

(If not part of a domain, it still returns true, but the resulting string will be empty.)

Answer 5

If you don't want to add a dependency to System.DirectoryServices, you can also call the NetGetJoinInformation API directly.

Answer 6

To get the current domain of the system on which your progam is running you can use System.DirectoryServices.ActiveDirectory.Domain.

Domain domain = Domain.GetComputerDomain();
Console.WriteLine( domain.Name );