[thelist] Machine/Computer Name

[Jon Hall]

Are you thinking about the Windows Netbios name? This isn't sent to the web
server by any browser that I know of. It is possible to get the Netbios
name, but it would be far from perfect. A user running a firewall or a non
windows machine will not send back the name...
If you are running Win2k (not sure about nt or 9x), but at the command
prompt type nbtstat -A <ip address> and you will get the netbios name along
with other stuff. If you wanted to do this on a web server, you would
probably want to build a server side component to connect to the machine and
grab the name and return it to your web site, rather than parsing nbtstat
though.

jon
----- Original Message -----
From: "profjj" <thelist at cbizz.net>
To: "Thelist at Lists. Evolt. Org" <thelist at lists.evolt.org>
Sent: Wednesday, November 21, 2001 11:22 AM
Subject: [thelist] Machine/Computer Name


> Hi Listers,
>
> Someone possed an intersting question, about finding the Machine/Computer
> Name via the web almost like the same way you can find say the ip address
of
> the user.
>
> Thanks in advance,
>
> profjj
> http://www.cbizz.net
>
>
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