What is a proxy address in Active Directory?

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Within the Windows Programming forums, part of the Platform Specific Boards category; In our company there's an AD that is used for the main domains and user accounts of the company. But this AD .

In our company there's an AD that is used for the main domains and user accounts of the company. But this AD has an odd (for us) setup: one user who's on the corporate network was the computer that originally created the AD. This user was a proxy address to that company and had a special "admin" user that enabled that proxy to be updated from any of the local AD domains.

In other words, it's a bit of a pain to move around the company because of this AD, so we just keep it. The question is, is there any benefit or downside to having such a proxy AD? How is this typically handled, and what's the best practice for the AD structure? The only drawback I can think of is if you use the "Computer Account" feature (available in WinXP). So when a computer is added to the domain, it will be created as the admin for a proxy account. If the proxy account goes away, the computer account will become orphaned.

Another drawback is that when a computer is removed from the domain, the computer account is removed as well, whereas the proxy account stays active until it is deleted. Other than that, you get everything you need from one AD. I would personally say that it is a good idea to have a user be a proxy to an AD. It has its own merits, such as being able to change users at the DC, without requiring a reboot of that server.

I've created the following scenarios in the past: 1) Main site is fully Active Directory-based, but all new users are imported to a local AD, which is then mapped to a local Active Directory. The reason for this is to have a fully contained local directory, with no replication. We also do some work where a user is in a local AD and then later in the Corporate Domain.

2) Main site is fully Active Directory-based, but all new users are imported to a local Active Directory. We also export the AD to a fully replicated domain, and import all users from that location.

How do I find my proxy address in Active Directory?

I have a company's Active Directory (2003 Domain Controller) that is currently hosting our Windows 2026 intranet site.select pcServerIPAddress I receive a list with every computer's ip address and the user name of the person who is logged into that PC, how do I know what the proper proxy address for my server's workgroup is? I would like to have the output be something like this. DomainName: ComputerName ProxyAddress: DOMAINNAME SERVERPC 192.168.100.2
Also is there a way to get the computers ip address through the command line? If not, can you recommend a free or inexpensive utility that does this? You will need to map a workstation to your organization's network. There are several ways to go about this. One of the easiest is to use Group Policy to map the workstation to the domain. The other is to use Active Directory Domain Services (AD DS). Select-Object Name,SamAccountName,DistinguishedName,@},DNSHostName,Description
With AD DS, you would use Get-AdGroupMember to find out who has a specific AD account and then loop through each member to find the workgroup's IP address.

Where do I find proxy address?

I have a server and I need to connect to another server on my network via ssh.

I have found an IP address of the machine that I want to ssh to. I can connect directly to the server by typing in the IP address but I would like to use a proxy to connect through, if it's possible.

I've tried googling but no luck. Does anyone know where I can find the proxy address? On OSX / Linux, you can use your OS' own built-in proxy software. On Windows, you can use a free proxy service, like www.hidemyass.com
On all platforms, you can use Tor.