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[Rob]

is there a way that is built into the MS WIN2K that I can
retrieve an IP address if I only have the MAC of the
device? These IP's are reserved in DHCP, but there are
too many scopes to manually search. Thanks.

 

[Paul McGuire]

if you have a ping too or something that you could ping the whole network.
then do a arp -a and it should return the mac for each device you pinged.

 

[Jason Robarts [MSFT]]

I'm using Windows Server 2003. I don't know if the features I'm using are
available in Windows 2000. I find the "netsh dhcp" command useful. In your
case I'd consider "netsh dhcp server \\myserver show scope" and "netsh dhcp
server \\myserver scope 10.0.0.0 show clients".

One idea.

Jason

 

[Matjaz Ladava [MVP]]

On Error Resume Next
strComputer = WScript.Arguments.Item(0)
Set objWMIService = GetObject("winmgmts:\\" & strComputer & "\root\cimv2")
Set colItems = objWMIService.ExecQuery("Select * from
Win32_NetworkAdapterConfiguration",,48)
For Each objItem in colItems
if (objItem.MACAddress <>"") and (objitem.ipconnectionmetric<>"") then
Wscript.Echo "Description: " & objItem.Description
for each ip in objItem.IPaddress
Wscript.Echo "IPAddress: " & ip
next
Wscript.Echo "MACAddress: " & objItem.MACAddress
END IF
Next

Will do it. Just save it as as vbs file and call it with scriptname
ipaddress.

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Regards

Matjaz Ladava, MCSE, MCSA, MCT, MVP
Microsoft MVP - Active Directory
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http://ladava.com