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Which command will you use to find out the name of the PC in networks ?

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Date Posted: 2016/03/18
Akbar  Quraishi
by Akbar Quraishi , Research Assistant , Florida State University

hostname command is used to get the name of local host machine.

Manojkumar Palanisamy
by Manojkumar Palanisamy , Sr. Network Engineer , Emirates Global Aluminum - DUBAL (GBM)

use nbtstat -a IP_Address or nbtstat -A IP_address - it uses NETBIOS to get required information from the PC.

- will give you hostname of the PC in the network, with Domain, user and mac address details. and also it depends on the Group Policy if system administrator disabled. Your user may required administrative rights to preform this function else it will ask you to elevate the user permission...

bechir dridi
by bechir dridi , production &exploitation administrator , Owliance Group

hostname is command to check the name of PC

Aman khan Khan
by Aman khan Khan , Technical Support engineer , Omnitech Info Slution

hostname command should be typed in command prompt.

jinshad areekkan
by jinshad areekkan , IT Tech Support , Riyad Bank

if we have ip addresses we can use either nslookup  ip or nbtstat -a ip.Hostname command will return your own PC name.

john leonard ligtas
by john leonard ligtas , Technical Support , Howard Hubbard Memorial Hospital

Hostname command on command prompt.

Raza Muhammad
by Raza Muhammad , IT Specialist , National Aerospace science andtechnology

In cmd hostname command is used to check the name of PC

type hostname in command prompt

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