jhayes's questions

this is a 2000 functional level domain :( :( :( *

I have a domain local security group in domain A which contains 1 user from a domain B and several from domain A.

On a server in domain A, I can add this domain local group to the local machine administrators group via 'net localgroup', however, after doing this I notice that the members of that group aren't being given local admin permissions (can't remote login, etc).

When I look at local groups via the computer mgmt gui I can see the domain local group. I tried to delete and add it back via the gui, however, the domain local group can't be found. I can see all the global groups, but not any domain local.

I've searched and can't find anything that indicates this shouldn't work.

Should I be able to add a domain local security group to a local machine administrators group? If so, why would I not be able to find the object using the group management gui?

This is on Win2k3 DNS server.

In troubleshooting some dns issues this morning I started seeing some odd results from nslookup. I searched a bit and found that many believe nslookup is a flawed tool.

My experience this morning suggests this may be the case and nslookup is not giving results based on what DNS actually is.

So, my question is, what is a good replacement dns query tool for Windows? I've seen netdig recommended, but mvptools.com seems to be gone and I can't find a mirror.

I'm trying to setup a batch file to execute a set of stored procs and dump the output to a timestamped text file. I'm having problems finding the correct format for the timestamp.

Here is what I'm using

osql.exe -S <server> -E -Q "EXEC <stored procedure> " -o "c:\filename_%date:~-0,10%_%time:~-0,10%.txt"

The error I get is:

Cannot open output file - x:\filename_Thu 06/25/_16:26:43.1.txt No such file or directory

I can't find the documentation and I've played around with it but can't find the correct format.