Tuesday, July 1, 2014

Using nbtstat command to check the NetBIOS Domain Name

"Nbtstat" is a command to display NetBIOS over TCP/IP (NetBT). Yesterday, I needed to check the NetBIOS Domain name of the test environment so I performed "Nbtstat" command to check it. It's easy for us to check the NetBIOS Domain name by performing "Nbtstat" with parameters.

Check local NetBIOS Domain name
1. Launch "Command Prompt".
2. Perform "nbtstat -n".


The type is "Group" that is represent a NetBIOS Domain name or a workgroup name.


To confirm the NetBIOS Domain name, we can perform the following commands to check it.

Check remote NetBIOS Domain name
1. Launch "Command Prompt".
2. Perform "nbtstat -a <HostName>".


Remark: If I enter <Host Name>.<Domain Name>, there is no result.


3. If we cannot locate the <Host name>, we can perform "nbtstat -A <IP Address>" to check the remote NetBIOS Domain name.


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