ip addresses (W2K)

[mayfieldit]

i work in a school as an Training IT Technician and have just had a phone call saying i have a virus on a machine with a certan ip address how do i find out which machine they are talking about

thanks in advance ppl

[jdharm]

If it is Win2K you could do a net send command using the IP instead of a computer name and have the person seeing the pop-up message to call you.

I don't know about Win2K or XP, but I know on the Win NT4 DHCP server I can view all the IP assignments in the DHCP Manager.

If you have a consistent naming convention on your LAN so that you will recognize the computer name you can use a app called by <a target="_blank" href=http://www.analogx.com>AnalogX (http://www.analogx.com/contents/download/network/whois.htm>WhoIs). It is a tiny little app that, among many other things, can be used to report the computer name of the machine with a certain IP on a LAN.

Josh
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[jrmillen]

Try nbtstat -A ip that will give you the netbios name of the computer. So being a school you would have logical names to match classrooms....right. Should only take you 5 mins to track down the comp in the room.

Cheers

[Paul S]

or ping -a &lt;ip address&gt;

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[jdharm]

Mmm. I like that one. I didn't realize you could do that.

Josh
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