I have several windows machines identified by ip address. I would like to write an application that query the computers remotely and gets their name. I cannot rely on DNS because it does not provide exact results.
I heard that there is a NetBIOS API that can be used, but I am not familiar with this API.
PING -A xxx.xxx.xxx.xxx
This will try WINS and then DNS.
The NSLOOKUP command does similar, but only via DNS.
check getnameinfo
The getnameinfo function provides protocol-independent name resolution from an address to an ANSI host name and from a port number to the ANSI service name.
This is the exact purpose of RARP or DHCP.
On Windows there is a dll (DHCPobj.dll) available in one of the Microsoft resource kits that supposedly allows you to make queries like this to your local DHCP server. I've never played with it, so I can't say for sure how well it works.
you can use below command to get youre remote host name using ip address
nslookup [ip address]
or you can use
tracert [ip address]
to track route that that specific ip address
