Given the IP address of a machine how do I get its NetBIOS name programmatically in C#? I know I can get it from the command line through “nbtstat -A ‘, but I’m looking for a better solution.
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Given the IP address of a machine how do I get its NetBIOS name programmatically in C#? I know I can get it from the command line through “nbtstat -A ‘, but I’m looking for a better solution.
Check Using the Socket class to request the NetBios name of a device over UDP (scroll down).
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