Have you ever wanted to know whose computer belongs to what IP address? Sure you can ping an IP address but that only tells you if there is connectivity. You can use the DOS command nbtstat to find NetBIOS computer names if you use it on your network. Just open a command prompt by going to Start, Run then type in cmd and click OK. Here are the available switches you can use with the nbtstat command
The one you want to use to find the host name associated with the IP address is nbtstat –a followed by the IP address. In the following example you can see 192.168.0.21 is the IP address, Jim is the computer name and TSI is the domain name.
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