Monday, October 09, 2006

Finding a PC on the network

If you have several hundred PCs in a domain and need to quickly find just one there's a quick trick to finding them. This is especially true if your org uses a odd naming conventions for the ComputerName. At a command prompt type 'net view | find /i "userid"'. The userid is an example. If you want to explore this one further look up the details of the command FIND. You can also redirect the output and open it in NotePad for simplicity. and copy & paste functionality.
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