Finding a PC by network hardware address on a NetWare Network? 2

[thickage]

We have a large NetWare Network using both static and dynamic IP addressing. We have received the typical IP conflict message, "The system has detected a conflict for IP address 123.345.345.123 with the system having hardware address 00:60:9c:5d:89:0b".

I know we can try to locate it using NetWare's console/connection information utility, but we have to search by each connection, one by one. Problem is our network is large and we can never find the offending PC.

Is there another way to find the PC by hardware address? Is there a freeware package out there that may help? Any suggestions are appreciated. Thanks.

 

[Visitor]

NLIST USER /A |FIND &quot;<mac address>&quot; will show you the particular user who is logged in at <mac address>. That's usually enough information (at least for us) to track down the conflict.

 

[thickage]

Thanks for the info. - I think we're on the right track, but I believe I'm stumbling on the syntax. First, I typed it in exactly as you did (literally) with no response. Secondly, I substituted the mac address for the actual mac address - i.e., NLIST USER /A |FIND &quot;<00:60:B0:9C:8C:E9>&quot; - still, to no avail. (I also tried it without the colons between the characters. Any suggestions?

 

[Visitor]

Thought about this right after I submitted that post - the < and > should not be included in the command line. Also, no colons in between the characters either. Sorry about that....

 

[cricket]

Try a program called NetGlass. A search engine will find it

 

[Technician]

You might want to check your syntax once again.

When you do a nlist user /a you see users that are in your current context so users that are within your context. I would include the /r (Start at [root]) and /s (Sub-context).

So the command would look like nlist user /a /r /s
Of course you will then either manually look for it or pipe it through find command.

You will notice that the MAC address displayed with nlist does not use : or <> plus any leading zeros are surpressed.

Your example would look like
nlist user /a /r /s|find &quot;609c5d890b&quot;

Gordon
gyuen@vanhosp.bc.ca

 

[thickage]

Technician,

Thanks for clearing that up. I've been using NLIST *.* /a /b to print out a list, but that didn't allow me to search for a specific IP.

I appreciate it!