Find a Compter name from an IP Address??

[Guest]

I have a Win2K network, with 100+ computers. 2 of the machines have viruses,
i have the machines IP addresses.

What't the easiest way to locate which acutal machines are @ fault, without
going round to each one.?

Thanks for any input

 

[Ken Dennis]

I have a Win2K network, with 100+ computers. 2 of the machines have viruses,
i have the machines IP addresses.

What't the easiest way to locate which acutal machines are @ fault, without
going round to each one.?

Thanks for any input

If you have 100+ Pc's, how did you determine that 2 have viruses?
Whatever program that let you determine that, should probably be able to
tell you which pc it reported the problem on...

 

[Steve Parry [MVP]]

I have a Win2K network, with 100+ computers. 2 of the machines have
viruses, i have the machines IP addresses.

What't the easiest way to locate which acutal machines are @ fault,
without going round to each one.?

Thanks for any input

type

ping -a x.x.x.x

(where x.x.x.x is the ip address you have)

in a cmd prompt

 

[David H. Lipman]

Execute;

nbtstat -A <IP_Add>

If those two platforms do have viruses, the first thing to do is to REMOVE them from the
LAN.

Dave



| I have a Win2K network, with 100+ computers. 2 of the machines have viruses,
| i have the machines IP addresses.
|
| What't the easiest way to locate which acutal machines are @ fault, without
| going round to each one.?
|
| Thanks for any input

 

[Lanwench [MVP - Exchange]]

I have a Win2K network, with 100+ computers. 2 of the machines have
viruses, i have the machines IP addresses.

What't the easiest way to locate which acutal machines are @ fault,
without going round to each one.?

Thanks for any input

As Steve and David posted, ping -a or nbtstat -a will do it, but I'd use
ping -a. Requires that you have reverse DNS set up, tho -

However, I strongly agree with Ken's reply - if you have 100+ computers,
I'd sure hope
you're using decent centralized workstation antivirus software, and it ought
to tell you which
computer has a virus. If it doesn't, how are you even seeing that there is
virus activity?