How to determine the hostname of an IP address in a Windows network?

Question

My LAN has 50 Windows hosts. I try to ping the IP address for a Windows machine running on the Windows command line.

The question is how do you get a host name of a specific IP address in the same workgroup of Windows?

Another question is how to know the hostname of the Windows machine from a Linux box if I have an IP address? ¿Command you use? I have a host running Kubuntu 9.04.

Answer 1

If you want to determine the name of a Windows machine without DNS, you should try Nbtstat. But that will only work on Windows:

For example,

NBTSTAT -A 10.10.10.10
In Linux, you should try nmblookup does much the same.

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Answer 2

There are a couple of ways to do this on Windows and Linux. For example,

nslookup: the classic way to find the IP address of a host name or vice versa.
ipconfig or ifconfig based on whether they run on Windows or Unix
hostname -i on Linux

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