zillah Posted December 7, 2006 Share Posted December 7, 2006 (edited) At work I have got a round 100 PCs and Servers on different LAN from mine (VLAN) , I have got this ip address 192.168.1.55, I can ping this ip address, but I can not locate which PC is it ?Is there an utility to help me find out where is that PC ?Regards Edited December 7, 2006 by zillah Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
chris9999 Posted December 7, 2006 Share Posted December 7, 2006 (edited) NSLOOKUP ip or NBTSTAT -A ip should give you the name and even the logged in user.If the name is not enough to identify the PC try NET SEND Name after you send everyone an emailDOS is your friend - especially in NT! Edited December 7, 2006 by chris9999 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
zillah Posted December 7, 2006 Author Share Posted December 7, 2006 Thanks chris9999NSLOOKUP ip orC:\Documents and Settings\Administrator]NSLOOKUP 192.168.1.55Server: etcedc1.etce.glo Address: 192.168.1.55 *** -------- can't find 192.168.1.55: Non-existent domain NBTSTAT -A ip should give you the name and even the logged in user.It did not work as well. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
nitroshift Posted December 7, 2006 Share Posted December 7, 2006 Maybe it's a laptop that connects to your LAN. Make the DHCP server assign IP's to pc's by MAC address (reservations) and restrict the DHCP pool to the number of LAN devices (pc's, printers, etc.) you have. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
CptMurphy Posted December 7, 2006 Share Posted December 7, 2006 If you're asking where the PC is physically, you have to do that on your own. Use something like Visio. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
cluberti Posted December 7, 2006 Share Posted December 7, 2006 If you do a ping -a <ip_address>, it should do a reverse lookup and give you the hostname of the machine that DNS thinks the IP belongs to (you need a working reverse lookup zone on your DNS server for this to work, obviously). If you're talking about finding it physically, that requires either a diagram showing where it is either on the floor or which switch port and patch panel it's attached to - there's no automated way to do that. Not sure which you mean, but hopefully you mean you're just looking for the host name . Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
newsposter Posted December 7, 2006 Share Posted December 7, 2006 Block the IP address in your routers, send out an email to all users, and wait for someone to come around to your desk. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
cluberti Posted December 7, 2006 Share Posted December 7, 2006 LOL Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
jftuga Posted December 7, 2006 Share Posted December 7, 2006 nbtstat will tell you the MAC address, given an IP, even if the machine is on a different VLAN.On your file server, right click My Computer, Click Manage, Shared Folders, Sessions. You should be able to map a IP address to a User name. Hopefully, you will know where the user's office is. :-)If not, you can start looking for the MAC address in all of you switches and then follow that port to the patch panel in your wiring closet. This port should connect to the office in question.-John Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
FrankE9999 Posted December 7, 2006 Share Posted December 7, 2006 try tracert 192.168.1.55If the system is in a domain and you have a domain admin account you can read the machine name from the registry.reg query "\\192.168.1.55\HKLM\SYSTEM\CurrentControlSet\Control\ComputerName\ComputerName" Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
jcarle Posted December 8, 2006 Share Posted December 8, 2006 Reminds me of a famous quote from QDB:<erno> hm. I've lost a machine.. literally _lost_. it responds to ping, it works completely, I just can't figure out where in my apartment it is. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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