C# Command Prompt

[Sebastian Silva]

Hi all,

Why when i create ProcessStartInfo to execute "cmd.exe" with arguments "nbstat -a 192.168.1.2" gives me a error " nbstat is not recognized as internal or external command" but in a normal(not a cmd executed by c#) command prompt it works!

Any ideas?

Many thanks,
Sebastian

[Sebastian Silva]

sorry the command is "nbtstat"...

[PsychoCoder]

Show us how you're calling the process, seeing it may help get you a solution faster because then we'll be able to see how you're doing it.

[Sebastian Silva]

Hi, thanks for the answer,
the code;

System.Diagnostics.Process process1;
process1 = new System.Diagnostics.Process();
process1.EnableRaisingEvents = false;
string strCmdLine;
strCmdLine = "/C nbtstat -a 192.168.2.110 | find \"Endereço MAC\" > teste.txt";
System.Diagnostics.Process.Start("CMD.exe", strCmdLine);
process1.Close();


Thanks,
Sebastian

[GaryTexmo]

Wow, I get the same result. That makes no sense either... I can run notepad.exe just fine and it's in the exact same folder location.

What are you trying to do? I googled around and it seems like people using nbtstat are usually trying to find a MAC address. If this is the case for you there are apparently other ways to do this that you may want to look into.

Definitely messed up behaviour though. I couldn't find any explanations over google... I'm as boggled as you are.

[PsychoCoder]

I used the following code and got no error at all, show us the cose you're using.

public static void Process()
{
    var process1 = new System.Diagnostics.Process {EnableRaisingEvents = false};
    const string strCmdLine = "/C nbtstat -a 192.168.2.110 | find \"Endereço MAC\" > teste.txt";
    System.Diagnostics.Process.Start("CMD.exe", strCmdLine);
    process1.Close();
 
}

[Sebastian Silva]

I'll try your solution PhysoCoder thank you for your answer i'll give the feedback...

by the way Gary Texmo i did it in console application (not windows form) and it worked... i understand the difference but...

thank you all for the answer...

Sebastian

[Sebastian Silva]

didn't work in windows form... maybe some kind of configuration of Visual studio...

thank you again!

[GaryTexmo]

See that's extra weird because I was doing mine in a console application and it was still telling me it couldn't find nbtstat. As I mentioned, I tried notepad (which is in the exact same folder) and it worked fine. My code was roughly equivalent to PsychoCoder's.

Glad it works magically for you though!

[Sebastian Silva]

Yeah really weird...

my come in console is the similar or the same...
above is listed my code:

 
 
public void cmdFunc(string ip)
        {
            System.Diagnostics.Process process1;
            process1 = new System.Diagnostics.Process();
            process1.EnableRaisingEvents = false;
            string strCmdLine;
            strCmdLine = "/C nbtstat -A "+ip+" | find \"Endereço MAC\" > teste.txt";
 
            System.Diagnostics.Process.Start("CMD.exe", strCmdLine);
            process1.Close();
            MessageBox.Show(strCmdLine);
 
 
        }
 

Hope you find a solution!