nbtstat - getting NetBIOS name of remote machine

[siddharth jain]

hello

I want to write a little console application to get the NetBIOS names
of a remote machine...exactly like the command nbtstat -a [IP], but in
a programmatic way.
I googled around quite a bit but without success. Could someone plz
guide me how to go abt doing this.

Thanks
Siddharth

[Siddharth Jain]

Also, is there any way to call the nbtstat command from a program and
get the output in a string?

Thanks again.
Siddharth

[James Curran]

The DnsQuery Win32 API function should hunt down the machine's name
however necessary, including using NetBT.

The .Net method System.Net.Dns.GetHostByAddress() should be using
DnsQuery to do the work.

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hello

I want to write a little console application to get the NetBIOS names
of a remote machine...exactly like the command nbtstat -a [IP], but in
a programmatic way.
I googled around quite a bit but without success. Could someone plz
guide me how to go abt doing this.

Thanks
Siddharth

[Glenn Wilson]

You want to have a look at the diagnostics classes, and the system.proccess
classes. These will alow you to execute a command line tool and redirect the
output to a string, Then you can parse the string to get what you need.

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Also, is there any way to call the nbtstat command from a program and
get the output in a string?

Thanks again.
Siddharth