ipconfig and nslookup

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Is there a way you can use ipconfig to find an ip address of another PC on a network?

I read that nslookup is a UNIX command, but I used it in XP to find a IP Address of another PC on a network, e.g. nslookup <machine name>

Thanks,

 

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if you know the name of the machine why not use ping -a which will resolve the DNS name to an IP address.

 

Ah course. Though nslookup and ping do different things it still shows the info I need.

Are there other ways?

 

If you know the computers name just ping it

 

or you can do things like ping www.certforums.co.uk or nslookup www.certforums.co.uk but you will get a non authorative answer doing the nslookup but will still show an ip

 

As stated earlier, and if you use DNS/WINS you can run ping -a to get the IP of the PC.. Or you could walk up to the PC, smack the operator, nick it for 2 seconds and run ipconfig to get the IP..

Try this application, it'll scan your network for IP's and give you NetBIOS names too and DNS names http://tinyurl.com/ipscan

 

Unfortunately, that link gets knocked down by my AV scanner.

I typically recommend Angry IP Scanner. Great little tool.

 

Unless you have McAfee, which blocks it as an 'Unwanted program' by default

 

Its the same tool, just a link to another direct download of it, thats all.. I'll amend my TinyURL