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Windows Domain Controller (DC) is a server that responds to security authentication requests within a Windows Domain (group of networked computers controlled by domain controller).

In this short note i will show how to find out which DC a computer is authenticated to using Windows CMD and PowerShell. (more…)

Windows Domain Controller (DC) is a server that responds to security authentication requests within a Windows Domain (group of networked computers controlled by domain controller).

In this article i will show how to find out whatever a computer is a part of a Windows domain and how to get the name of the domain the computer is joined to using CMD and Powershell. (more…)

The cat command in Linux is used to concatenate files and print to a standard output.

The type command is a Windows cat equivalent that works across a command-line prompt (CMD) and a Windows PowerShell.

In this short note i will show how to concatenate files and how to print the contents of a text file to the screen in Windows. (more…)

The watch command in Linux is used to execute a command periodically and show the output.

This is extremely useful if you need to track any changes in the output of a repeatedly executed command.

There is no direct equivalent for the watch command in Windows, however the same result can be achieved using the while loop in a Windows PowerShell or the for loops in a Windows command-line prompt (CMD). (more…)

In Windows you can make a checksum of a file without installing any additional software.

For this you can use the certUtil – built-in command-line tool that works both in Windows CMD and PowerShell.

In this note i will show the examples of how to make md5sum and sha256sum of a file in Windows from the command line. (more…)

The telnet client in Windows is disabled by default.

Before using the telnet command in Windows it is needed to enable the telnet client, otherwise you’ll get a result similar to the below messages:

CMD: ‘telnet’ is not recognized as an internal or external command, operable program or batch file.

PowerShell: The term ‘telnet’ is not recognized as the name of a cmdlet, function, script file, or operable program.

In this note i am showing how to install the telnet client via the Windows CMD & PowerShell and how to use the telnet command to watch the Star Wars movie on the command prompt. (more…)

If you try to cd to a network drive from the Windows CMD, you will get the following error:

CMD does not support UNC paths as current directories

Instead of cd command in CMD you can use a pushd command, that creates a drive mapping to the network share and then changes into a path relative to the share it creates.

In PowerShell you should be able to cd to a network drive without any errors as it natively supports UNC paths and the cd command.

In this small note i am showing how to cd to a network drive from the Windows CMD and fix the error: “CMD does not support UNC paths as current directories“. (more…)