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

In suma: I have the IP of a machine in my LAN I want to get the name of the machine (if it has one)

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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

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DavidPostill
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ping -a xxx.xxx.xxx.xxx

This will try WINS and then DNS.

The NSLOOKUP command does similar, but only via DNS.

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  • thanks,,, but sadly ping -a is not reveling the netBIOS name (and I know the name exists (if i ping the pc by name works ok) – ZEE Jun 22 '15 at 15:38
  • No DNS in this LAN (by option) – ZEE Jun 22 '15 at 15:39
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    Are you happy to download a third party tool to achieve your goal? – zain.ali Jun 22 '15 at 15:43
  • I use several 3rd party tools... like netscan, to achieve this... I was wondering if this could be done with OS tools... THX! – ZEE Jun 23 '15 at 18:32
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From a Windows system :

nbtstat -A x.x.x.x

From Linux a Linux :

nmblookup -A x.x.x.x

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