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Authored by: waffffffle on Dec 11, '03 12:07:32PM

I'm not sure. If you can browse the windows network neighborhood then you can tell by what the names of the network computers are. However I am not sure about computers that aren't sharing things on the network. You may need to try and find out the naming convention of computers on the network. I know that on my university network all Windows 2000 computers and later must be named for the student's user name but that's just here. If anyone knows a trick using smbclient to translate an IP to a netbios name please post it.



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Send popup messages to Windows users
Authored by: stonemtn on Dec 11, '03 12:08:49PM

On a Windows 2000 network, you can actually use the USERNAME rather than the NETBIOS name. I've been using it all morning to great effect!



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