[WinMac] Re: finding IP addresses

Alex Dearden(pata[at]tampabay.rr.com)
Wed, 21 Apr 1999 20:10:42 -0500

> The never available outsourced person refuses
>to tell me the IP address since he thinks that I don't need the info.
>Since they aren't using the DHCP (dynamic ???? something or other) but
>TCP/IP, I need the IP address to enter into the TCP/IP control panel to
>connect via Dave. What is so secret about the IP address I'll never know

If you know the Netbios (PC) name of the computers (whatever they show up
as in network neighborhood) you can find their IP addresses from another
PC. Go to a DOS prompt and type "NBTSAT ?" (or NBTSTAT help, or something
similar, I forget exactly which, in fact, if you type "NBTSTAT" alone
you'll get the help file). There is a flag to get the IP address of a
client providing the netbios name (-N or something, I don't have a PC
handy just now). Yo do it the other way around (the netbios name
providing the IP address, use NBTSTAT -A <netbios name>).

Very handy. I know it works in NT, and I'm pretty sure it does in 95/98
as well.

good luck

Alex Dearden
MCSE
pata@doglover.com

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