Re: Find IP address from computer name

From: Phil (pmarg_at_charter.net)
Date: 05/22/03 

Date: Thu, 22 May 2003 02:12:38 GMT

I talked with the netops guys that control the router. They came up with
all of the things I've already tried, such as pinging the name (duh!!),
checking the WINS server. I finally said he was closing the ticket since
he was "stumped" and it is not causing any damage.

In the mean time, today I was working on a 98 machine. When I started to
reboot up pops this message:

"There are 1 user(s) connected to your computer. Shutting down your
computer will disconnect them. Do you want to continue?"

In this case I clicked no, because I wanted to find out who was
connected. I went to Windows 98's NetWatcher utility. And guess what?
It's that same frickin' computer name connected to this computer! The
same one that was showing up in the security event logs on the domain
controller.

Here are the details from NetWatcher:
User: Administrator
Computer: computerX
Shares: 1
Open Files: 0
Shared Folders: IPC$

I tried to ping it, but no reply. There's got to be a way to track down
the IP of this machine. Any more suggestions? Thanks.

"Steven L Umbach" <sumbach@ameritech.net> wrote in
news:VAyva.12866$%_3.6538125@newssrv26.news.prodigy.com:

> Well that is no good - kinda limits your options. It will be
> hard to
> track down unless you get lucky and are able to ping/tracert it
> sometime. You could look into installing firewall/traffic logging
> software on dc to track it down, but probably not worth the headache
> to install/configure/reboot, etc. Good luck. --Steve
>
> "Phil" <pmarg@charter.net> wrote in message
> news:Xns9378795BA6DF7pmargcharternet@65.82.44.187...
>> Thanks Steve. Unfortunately, even though I am sys admin of our
>> location, I don't have access to the router. I've tried getting the
>> password from net ops, but this is guarded like gold (I guess their
>> afraid I'd mess up their settings). I've tried getting them to take
>> care of this, but to no avail. This may end up being an "oh well"
>> issue, unless there is some way I can extract the IP from the
>> information I am getting in the security logs.
>>
>> -Phil
>>
>> "Steven L Umbach" <sumbach@ameritech.net> wrote in
>> news:H%uva.12481$%_3.6492091@newssrv26.news.prodigy.com:
>>
>> > If possible, configure specific traffic logging as traffic
>> > comes into
>> > your network through the router - possibly you have a firewall
>> > there? If so make sure the time is in sych with your domain
>> > controllers and log traffic to your domain controllers from outside
>> > your network - especially on ports 139 and 445. Then match up your
>> > firewall or router logs to the time that the events appear on your
>> > domain controllers. If events happen in some sort of pattern you
>> > may get lucky and find address by a ping hostname or tracert
>> > hostname at the right time. --- Steve
>> >
>> > "Phil" <pmarg@charter.net> wrote in message
>> > news:Xns9377E23409B50pmargcharternet@65.82.44.187...
>> >> "Stanimir Vasic" <stanimir.vasic at src.si> wrote in
>> >> news:OLk9I41FDHA.2296 @TK2MSFTNGP12.phx.gbl:
>> >>
>> >> > You could check also dhcp database, if you are using dhcp.
>> >> >
>> >>
>> >> This computer is not in our network. It is on the other side of
>> >> our
>> > router
>>
>
>

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