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Find NetBIOS/WINS name of a IP

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Full question
https://superuser.com/questions/931058/f...

Accepted answer links:
[NBTSTAT.exe - Display protocol statistics and current TCP/IP connections using NBT (NetBIOS over TCP/IP)]: http://ss64.com/nt/nbtstat.html
[An A-Z Index of the Windows CMD command line]: http://ss64.com/nt/

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ACCEPTED ANSWER

Score 23


How can I find the NetBIOS/WINS name of a PC

You can use nbtstat

Example:

nbtstat -A x.x.x.x

Syntax

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By IP address

  NBTSTAT -A IP_address [options] [interval]

Key

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-A (Adapter status) List the remote machine's name table given its IP address

Source NBTSTAT.exe - Display protocol statistics and current TCP/IP connections using NBT (NetBIOS over TCP/IP)


Further reading




ANSWER 2

Score 7


ping -a xxx.xxx.xxx.xxx

This will try WINS and then DNS.

The NSLOOKUP command does similar, but only via DNS.




ANSWER 3

Score 1


From a Windows system :

nbtstat -A x.x.x.x

From Linux a Linux :

nmblookup -A x.x.x.x