Aquire IP from PC name

Hi

I am trying to get IP address's for remote PC's

All i have is the name of the PC, i can ping it or C$ into it but thats all

Any info would be great

Thanks

Lee H

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ally_uk

Few ways of doing this

You could write a script which runs every 15 minutes on the remote computer that checks the current IP address and emails you it back to you.

If your using static IP's then you could use a IP scan tool

http://remote-ip-address.qarchive.org/

Hope this helps there may be a easier way of doing like a lookup or something along those lines if anyone knows a easier solution I would be interested aswell!

sprkymrk

If you ping the computer name, doesn't it reply with the IP address?

Lee H

Thanks guys

It does give the Ip if u ping the PC name,my inventory software requres an IP range so now i can scan them

Cheers

Lee H

Silver Bullet

Maybe something like this is what you need then.

wastedtime

I am assuming this is a domain configuration for these computers. If so just make this bat file:

for /f %%a in (complist.txt) do call :NextOne %%a
goto :EOF

:NextOne
nslookup %1 | find /v "domain server IP" | find /v "domain server name"

Just change "domain controller IP" and "domain controller name" to the correct info (typing nslookup into cmd would get you both of those). Just get a txt file that has a list of your computer names. I just go to "active directory users and computers" and export a list from there. After that I just enter the bat file into the command line and redirect the output to a text file.

Also if these are all windows boxes you could use a few wmic commands like:

wmic /node:"@complist.txt" nicconfig get ipaddress /format:htable > output.htm

You just need to have the adminpack installed as far as I know.