"Network Places" Question

[scroce]

Hello. I've just inherited a small network from someone who left my company rather quickly, so there's not much documentation. I'm trying to find where everything is.

The admin. had win2000 on his PC and is a member of the domain "workgroup". This network has one NT4 server and 50+ computers. Most people are part of the "NJ" domain.

So when I go into "Network Places" I see his computer name and the name of another computer. Here's the puzzle:

I can't seem to find out where that other computer is. Is there some way to do it quickly rather than having to check every name on everyone's PC? Also, how would I know it's not a printer or some other machine. When I try to double click it, it won't let me in, it asks me for a username/password that I have no clue what it is.

Anybody offer any advice?

 

[dball63]

Its not a printer!
Admin PC only one w/ win2K?
Are you using this PC now?

 

[Huffy]

Can you go to a cmd prompt and do an NBTSTAT -a along with ip address and see who is logged in. Then you could find out where they sit. If you are using WINS then ping the machine by name, get the ip address and set a filter on your wins server with that ip address and see who was the last one logged in.

 

[scroce]

ok - i did nbtstat -n I'm not sure what I am seeing here

It look like my own computer name several times, my domain name and my user name at my local machine.

I don't know the IP addesses of the other machines, so how can I ping them?