You could use WMI to collect the information you want from a remote
machine. Look at the System.Management classes, and the
Win32_NetworkAdapterConfiguration WMI class.
Here's an example of a VBScript that does something simliar, it's not
too difficult to port this to VB.NET with the classes in System.Managment
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On Error Resume Next
Const wbemFlagReturnImmediately = &h10
Const wbemFlagForwardOnly = &h20
strComputer = INputbox("Enter an IP address or ComputerName")
WScript.Echo
WScript.Echo "=========================================="
WScript.Echo "Computer: " & strComputer
WScript.Echo "=========================================="
Set objWMIService = GetObject("winmgmts:\\" & strComputer & "\root\CIMV2")
Set colItems = objWMIService.ExecQuery("SELECT * FROM
Win32_NetworkAdapterConfiguration", "WQL", _
wbemFlagReturnImmediately + wbemFlagForwardOnly)
For Each objItem In colItems
WScript.Echo "Caption: " & objItem.Caption
WScript.Echo "DatabasePath: " & objItem.DatabasePath
WScript.Echo "Description: " & objItem.Description
WScript.Echo "DNSDomain: " & objItem.DNSDomain
WScript.Echo "DNSHostName: " & objItem.DNSHostName
strIPAddress = Join(objItem.IPAddress, ",")
WScript.Echo "IPAddress: " & strIPAddress
WScript.Echo "MACAddress: " & objItem.MACAddress
WScript.Echo "TcpipNetbiosOptions: " & objItem.TcpipNetbiosOptions
Wscript.echo "----------------------------------------------------"
Next
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XiScO wrote:
hi!
I'm trying to get some info from other computers, I make ping to test that
are powered on, then want to get netbios name and MAC. I get the dns name
and get only first part as netbios (although this may be wrong,right?).
Is there anyway to get netbios and mac of other computer?
Thanks.
