How to Look Up Your Server Information on the Computer

In a Windows domain, you log in using a Windows domain controller, which is a server computer that authenticates your login information and sets up your user permissions. To view your login server, you use the Windows environment variable "logonserver." This environment variable holds the information for your server, so you can identify the server that logs you in to the domain.

Instructions

1

Click the Windows "Start" button. Type "cmd" in the search text box and press "Enter." The "cmd" command opens the MS-DOS prompt.

2

Type the following text in your command prompt:

echo %logonserver%

The "echo" keyword prints out information you specify. In this example, the "%logonserver%" is the name of server that authenticates your user credentials.

3

Press "Enter" to execute the statement. If you are logged in to your local computer, the local computer name is shown. If you log in to a Windows server, the server information is shown in the prompt.