Win2k question: is there any way to find out a computer's Netbios name w/o logging into it?

[Entity]

My boss and I have been building a bunch of computers @ work, and I don't know the Netbios name for one of them I'm trying to work on right now. I need the netbios name to be able to figure out what the password is, unfortunately, so I can't login to the machine...

Is there any way to find out a netbios name on boot?

Rob

 

[iamwiz82]

I have a few questions:

are the connected to a domain?

have you lost the local admin password?

If so, you can change the local admins PW from the user manager on your PDC.

 

[Entity]

<< are the connected to a domain? >>


Nope. Otherwise I'd just hit "options" and change the name from the Domain to whatever the local computer name is.


<< have you lost the local admin password? >>


Kinda. The local admin password is dependent on (read: generated by) the netbios name. Consequently I need to know the netbios name to be able to login.

Rob

 

[Pepsei]

can you ping it?

incidently, you probably know about nbtstat -A x.x.x.x command...

 

[Ameesh]

nslookup

 

[Entity]

<< incidently, you probably know about nbtstat -A x.x.x.x command... >>


Yup, but unfortunately, it hasn't had any networking setup (drivers for card, etc.) done yet. Looks like I may be SOL here.

 

[Pepsei]

boot it up with the 'recovery disk' and i think there might be a command that'd you can use to display the name of the 'puter.

is it called 'recovery disk'? however, i think you won't be able to access some of the commands if you can't log into it...


oh yeah, i think during the logon stage, you might be able to go to the options, pull down domain/workgroup tab and see the local computer name.

 

[Fandu]

If you can get access to the registry your good to go..................

 

[Entity]

<< oh yeah, i think during the logon stage, you might be able to go to the options, pull down domain/workgroup tab and see the local computer name.
>>


You can only do that once you've joined the domain.

 

[BooneRebel]

Is it formatted FAT or NTFS? If you're just building them and don't care about any additional user accounts you've added to the box you can delete the SAM (it will be recreated with a blank password for the administrator account). If it's formatted NTFS you'll need NTFSDOS in order to see the drive from a boot disk. (or you can pull the drive and add it to another PC as a second drive temporarily...)