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Have you ever wanted to know what computer belongs to what IP address? This information can come in very handy when trying to troubleshoot network issues or see if there are devices on your network that don't belong there.
Find computer name from command line
Just knowing the IP address of a device on your network may not be enough information to figure out what you need to know. Sure you can ping an IP address but that only tells you if there is connectivity. Sometimes you can use the -a switch with the ping command and see if you get lucky and it resolves the IP address to a name.
Just open a command prompt by going to Start, Run then type in cmd and click OK. Here are the available switches you can use with the nbtstat command.
The one you want to use to find the host name associated with the IP address is nbtstat —a followed by the IP address.