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Convert LAN IP to Netbios Name
homemade-jam
17 Nov, 2008 - 09:06 AM
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Right, so I have a stream running on my lan and want to be able to conver the lan IP address' to the netbios names as I want to find out their identity, I've tried nbtstat -A 192.168.28.32 to no avail... icon_up.gif

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17 Nov, 2008 - 10:17 PM
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Assuming that you are on Linux, you could check your arp tables, & get the MAC address. You should be able to cross reference that with any networking devices (routers, hubs) that are logging connections on the lan.

I don't know of another way, sorry. Would be interesting to see what others suggest.
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17 Nov, 2008 - 11:31 PM
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Unfortunately I'm actually on windows here...

I can do it the other way around by pinging the netbios name and it resolves it to the ip address and tells me which is really annoying.
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I don't believe the name you get back from ping is strictly netbios. Its supposed to be DNS, but has failover. With windows it's confusing, because you also have wins and depending on the setup, everyone will get registered in a windows DNS server. Or some service that's functioning as such.

Another tool windows has is nslookup. It's, ahem, a little cryptic but can theoretically find the info you want.

I'd say try nmap; not standard windows, but you can install it.
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23 Nov, 2008 - 10:22 AM
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Good point, I think Autoscan has the same feature iirc.

Got it: nslookup and then set type=ANY then ip address.

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what happened when you did nbtstat? it works on my pc.
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Actually they both work on my home network but when I try it on the larger college network it doesn't seem to have the same effect.

The queries seem to be stopping at some sort of server and resolving as untracable. I think is because communicating across the subnets is explicitly banned on the network.

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If it resolves from the NETBIOS name then you will have a DNS Server correct?

Basically i think you just you need to set up a reverse lookup zone in DNS.

This is relatively simple to do in windows server 2000/2003 and after all the computers are restarted (e.g. the computer re-register themselves with the DNS Server) if it is an Active directory integrated zone then they should automatically create themselves an entry in the reverse lookup zone to save you the hassle.

After that you should be able to retrieve hostnames from their IP addresses.

The other options i THINK is WINS but i have never used this and know nothing about it

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