How to get machine names from IP Address

[AccountCR]

On a Novell network, that doesn't have DNS, WINS or NDS, how would you go about getting the machine name of a remote computer given that you have the IP Address? (NBTStat doesn't seem to work.)

Any help would be greatly appreciated. Thanks.

 

[salserocito]

I don't beleive that is possible!

Good Luck!

 

[rsebasti]

Impossible unless the target PC has some sort of TSR that waits for certain calls and responds to them via IP.

 

[TheLad]

I would hope your NetWare servers are running NDS???? Be a bit difficult to login without NDS

If you use DHCP, you could look it up in your DHCP database? -----------------------------------------------------
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[AccountCR]

Concerning the DHCP database:

Is there a command line that can be ran to return the machine name from the DHCP database?

 

[TheLad]

IF you are running NetWare DHCP, use the DHCP console. It can be installed from SYS:SYSTEM\DNSDHCP -----------------------------------------------------
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[JBruyet]

I don't know if this will work on your network, but if I run TRACERT from any of my workstations to another workstation it'll put the machine name up by the IP address.

HTH,

Joe Brouillette

 

[AccountCR]

Already tried that one. Good suggestion though.
I am afraid that since we don't have NETBIOS installed that we may be out of luck. This needs to be done through a script so loading the DHCP console won't help for this one. Any other suggestions?

 

[SuperDaveDCF]

Are you guys running ZENworks?

 

[gavrc]

I believe a utility called IP-Tools can do reverse lookups from IP. It might be of use...

http://www.ks-soft.net/ip-tools.eng/index.htm

Gav
A problem with Windows??? Never...

 

[Guest_imported]

You should be able to use the /a switch when you ping the IP address;

ex: ping /a 172.17.0.10

This will return the reply TTL results as well as the host name in the "pinging xxx.xxx.xxx.xxx" line.