Ping all PCs in domain

[Bad boy Warrior]

I copied ping.exe to a root drive on a domain controller. Along with this i created a text file called PC.txt (which lists all the PCs in our domain) and a batch file with the command

ping.exe pc.txt >> answer.txt

When i run this batch it doesnt return any ping results in answer.txt- how can i ping all pcs in a domain?

thx

[TravisO]

You can't do that with DOS, you'll need to rewrite it into vb script:

for ($i = 1; $i -le 256; $i++) { $cmd = "ping 192.168.96." + $i; invoke-expression $cmd }

If you haven't heard of it, Powershell is MS's equivalent to a Unix shell

http://www.microsoft.com/windowsserver2003...ll/default.mspx

It requires XP/2003/Vista and .Net 2.0 installed.

Edited December 13, 2006 by travisowens

[Bad boy Warrior]

Thanks for that but how do i add my text file to this code (PC.txt). Im guessing to replace 192.... with my text file name, but that didnt work????

I didnt know about Powershell so thanks for the link and ill look into it.

[jaclaz]

You can't do that with DOS, you'll need to rewrite it into vb script:

Really?

I would have thought that something like:

For /F "tokens=* delims=" %%A in (pc.txt) DO Ping %%A >> answer.txt

would work....

@Bad boy Warrior

Please read here a good tutorial about using the above command:

http://www.robvanderwoude.com/ntfortokens.html

and extracting needed data...

jaclaz

Edited December 13, 2006 by jaclaz

[IcemanND]

@travisowens - your solution will not ping every machine in a domain. only in a subnet.

jaclaz's solution will at least ping every machine in the text file. Which if the query to create it was done correctly can have every machine in the domain listed in it.

If you want to eliminate the text file you could use VBS to query the domain for machines and then ping them.

[jcarle]

Use NetPing.