Thread: Using nbtstat to Find a Computer Name

Do you want to know whose PC belongs to what IP address? Definite you can ping an IP address but that only tells you if there is connectivity. You can utilize DOS command nbtstat to get NetBIOS PC names if you utilize it on network. Just open a command prompt by going to Start, Run then type in cmd and click OK. Here are accessible switches you can utilize with nbtstat command



You would like to utilize to locate host name linked with IP address is nbtstat a followed by IP address. In following example you can notice 192.168.0.21 is the IP address, Jim is PC name and TSI is domain name.