[winsock] Getting the machine name on which I'm connected

Hi Guys,

First of all..
HELLO to the community !!

I have a question:

I connect to a pc via winsock.connect
And I only know the ip of this pc. (winsock.RemoteHost = " 192.168.2.99 ")
How can I get the machine name ??

Sorry for my bad english...I'm german :wave:

I hope someone can help me with this !

Thx a lot :thumb:

Welcome to the forums!

I know you can resolve names on the internet with this:

VB Code:

shell "PING -a xxx.xxx.xxx.xxx"

now the 'resolve names' i think it only works when working on an internet related project even though i don't understand the.

VB Code:

shell "PING -a xxx.xxx.xxx.xxx"

the get machine name thing, i dont know how to do it from the server but this is the trick i used;

each time the client sends a message to the server it gets the machine name and send along with it.

fine i don't know about others but this seems a little more complicated.

You need to do a DNS reverse lookup. There is a third party control to do that: http://www.dart.com/dns.asp
Yet, with a bit more searching on the net, you will certainly a free solution via the windows API.
From the command prompt nbtstat -a xxx.xxx.xxx.xxx (Where the xxx are the IP address)
Also from command prompt: nslookup

Thanks for the answers.

I've found some API funktions
GetHostByName() and
GetHostByIp()

They have also solved my problem :)

hi try this:

VB Code:

dim localpc as string 
 
localpc = environ("computername")

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Originally Posted by nvierros

hi try this:

VB Code:

dim localpc as string 
 
localpc = environ("computername")

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environ can be changed, dont use it.