Q158388: Useful Resource Kit Utilities for Domain Administrators
Article: Q158388
Product(s): Microsoft Windows NT
Version(s): winnt:4.0
Operating System(s):
Keyword(s): kbenv
Last Modified: 28-MAR-2002
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The information in this article applies to:
- Microsoft Windows NT Workstation version 4.0
- Microsoft Windows NT Server version 4.0
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SUMMARY
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The Windows NT 4.0 Resource Kit includes many useful utilities for Windows NT
domain administrators. The purpose of this article is to group several of the
utilities together and provide a summary description for quick identification of
the purpose of each utility. It is not intended to provide a comprehensive
discussion for each utility.
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Addusers.exe Dumps and imports user and group accounts in an Windows NT
user account data base to a text file. Passwords are not
included.
Autolog.exe Graphical utility to automate the registry settings for
Auto-logon.
Browmon.exe Graphical browser monitoring utility.
Browstat.exe A more powerful command-line browser monitoring and querying
tool.
Delprof.exe Deletes user profiles.
Dommon.exe Graphical domain monitoring tool. Displays secure channels
between Windows NT computers that are members of a domain,
and between domain controllers that are trusting other
domains. This utility shows the same information as the
command-line utility Nlmon.exe.
Findgrp.exe Finds all local and global group memberships for a user in
both an accounts domain and a resource domain.
Getsid.exe Dumps the users SID (includes the RID) for users or groups.
Ifmember.exe Lists the groups a user is a member of.
Logoff.exe Utility (available only with NT 4.0 Server Resource Kit)
allows the user to logoff from the command prompt.
Netdom.exe Powerful command-line utility can be used to join a domain,
manage computer accounts for members and BDCs, reset secure
channels, establish trust relationships, and manage resource
domain computer accounts.
Nlmon.exe Command-line domain monitoring tool. Displays secure
channels between Windows NT computers that are members of a
domain, and between domain controllers that are trusting
other domains. Shows the same information as the graphical
utility Dommon.exe
Nltest.exe Very powerful command-line domain monitoring utility. Does
much more than Nlmon.exe or Dommon.exe.
Passprop.exe Provides functionality not available in User Manager. Allows
policies to force complex passwords that contain a mix of
upper and lowercase letters and numbers or symbols, and the
ability to lock out an administrator's account over the
network, but still allowing an administrator to log on
interactively on domain controllers.
Regback.exe Utility to backup the registry.
Regrest.exe Utility to restore the registry.
Showgrps.exe Shows the groups that a user is a member of.
Usrstat.exe Displays user name, full name, and last logon date and time
for each user account across all domain controllers.
Usrtogrp.exe Adds users to local and global groups from a text file.
Dumpel.exe Dumps an event log to a file.
Netwatch.exe Graphical utility shows shares and connected users for one
or more servers in a single window.
Pathman.exe Command-line utility to modify the system and user path
environment statements.
PERMCOPY.exe Copies permissions from one share to another.
Perms.exe Displays a user's permissions to files and directories on an
NTFS volume.
Regkey.exe Graphical utility to modify the registry to change settings
for the shutdown button on the logon screen, to display the
last logged on user, whether to parse the Autoexec.bat file
for path and environment variables, to specify the number of
profiles cached, to specify the default wallpaper, and
whether to generate long file names on the FAT file system.
Rmtshare.exe Remotely view and create shares.
Scopy.exe Copies files between NTFS file systems and retains all file
and directory permissions.
Showacls.exe Displays NTFS permissions for files, folders, and directory
trees.
Shutdown.exe Command-line utility to remotely shut down and reboot
Windows NT computers.
Shutgui.exe Graphical utility to remotely shutdown and reboot Windows NT
computers.
Srvinfo.exe Utility that lists lots of information for local and remote
Windows NT computers. To get all the information, you must
be an administrator of the remote machine. Some of the
information listed includes Windows NT type, build number,
domain name, Primary Domain Controller (PDC), IP address,
drive space, and services running.
Timeserv.exe A service (available only with NT 4.0 Server Resource Kit)
that keeps the local system clock synchronized with
a Time server that is independent of a logged on user.
Whoami.exe Lists the user account who spawned the CMD process.
Winat.exe Graphical utility to administer and schedule processes using
the Scheduler service.
Additional query words:
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Keywords : kbenv
Technology : kbWinNTsearch kbWinNTWsearch kbWinNTW400 kbWinNTW400search kbWinNT400search kbWinNTSsearch kbWinNTS400search kbWinNTS400
Version : winnt:4.0
Issue type : kbinfo
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