Saturday 25 June 2016

How to get hostname or MAC address using IP address of the system

Sometime you need to find hostname or mac address of the system for security purpose. You may find this using command "nbtstat" without physically present at required computer in your network.

To find hostname or mac address of system you must know the ip address of the system.Use below command to find

nbtstat -a IP address of the remote system

suppose you want to find hostname and mac address of  the system which is having ip address 172.16.16.16. You need to use command nbtstat -a 172.16.16.16 and output of command shown below.