The –n Switch

The –n Switch You use the –n switch to display the local NetBIOS name table on a Windows device. The output (shown in Figure 4.7) is similar to the output of the –a switch, except that instead of displaying the NetBIOS name table of another host, you are displaying it...

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The –c Switch

The –c Switch The function of the –c switch is to display the local NetBIOS name cache on the workstation on which it is run. Figure 4.6 shows sample output of the nbtstat –c command. FIGURE 4 . 6 Sample output of the nbtstat –c command Each entry in this display...

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The –A Switch

The –A Switch The –A switch works exactly as the –a switch and produces the same output; only the syntax of the command is different. First, you use an uppercase A instead of a lowercase a. Second, you use the IP address of the host whose NetBIOS name table you want to view instead of the Net- BIOS name. The syntax includes the nbtstat...

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The –a Switch

The –a Switch The –a switch displays a remote machine’s NetBIOS name table, which is a list of all the Net- BIOS names that that particular machine “knows about.” The following command produced the output for the server S1 shown in Figure 4.5: nbtstat –a S1 FIGURE 4...

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