Re: Capture workstation computer name

On 20/12/2008, at 10:59 AM, Pete Hall wrote:

Dunno Simon. I would do that on Linux by taking the IP address, and
running dig -x to get the hostname from the DNS server. Anything like
that available?

They're not necessarily the same thing. The "computer name" is usually the value entered in the Computer Name tab System Properties. This is often (indeed I'd say almost always) different from the host name for TCP/IP. Further, most PC's don't get a DNS name so reverse look-up on IP address doesn't help.

Maybe if WINS is set up and includes a definition for the PC an SMB query could be performed to determine the computer name. Not sure if there is a Java interface to SMB. I guess JNI could be used to invoke C code to do this but still other than Active-X, which can interrogate the local PC, other options rely on a "properly configured" network environment (Dynamic DNS entries for each PC, WINS entries for each PC) and that seems unlikely.

Regards,
Simon Coulter.
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