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Hi! This might be the silliest question posted but I've looked up everywhere
and tried everything i could think of. I have 2 computers connected at my home (A PC running XPsp2 wired connection and laptop Vista Home Premium via wireless connection). The connection is working fine and I can see the desktop PC from my laptop network page. My question is this: Is there a way I can find the IP address of the desktop without manually having to go there? I can do it for my laptop by going to network and sharing center view status etc. Is there a way preferably without using cmd to find the IP of a remote computer connected via LAN? Waiting for your reply. Thanks! |
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I'm not sure how it can help me, sorry.
Is there any other way? Some other software? Shouldn't Vista already have a feature to view the IP address of computers connected to the same network? |
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NetResView - View all computers/shares on your network http://www.nirsoft.net/utils/netresview.html "Molten Ice" ... I'm not sure how it can help me, sorry. Is there any other way? Some other software? Shouldn't Vista already have a feature to view the IP address of computers connected to the same network? |
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Hi
A neat little program that will check LAN IPs, host/external IP and shared resources and can also scan and resolve domains can be had at: http://www.softperfect.com scroll down for NetScanner (FREE) DH "tlee" wrote in message ... NetResView - View all computers/shares on your network http://www.nirsoft.net/utils/netresview.html "Molten Ice" ... I'm not sure how it can help me, sorry. Is there any other way? Some other software? Shouldn't Vista already have a feature to view the IP address of computers connected to the same network? |
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There are actually a couple of ways:
On the Vista machine click the internet/network icon on the right side of your task bar. Click Network and Sharing Center. Click View Full Map. Then hold your mouse of the computer icon on the map and it will display the Internal IP Address. You can also click View Status | Details from the Network and Sharing Center instead of View Full Map. In the Details box your IP is listed beside IPv4. You can also obtain it by accessing your wireless router. On the XP: Click the internet/network icon on the task bar then click on the Support tab. You can download software or 'gadgets' that displays this information for you automatically. "Molten Ice" wrote: Hi! This might be the silliest question posted but I've looked up everywhere and tried everything i could think of. I have 2 computers connected at my home (A PC running XPsp2 wired connection and laptop Vista Home Premium via wireless connection). The connection is working fine and I can see the desktop PC from my laptop network page. My question is this: Is there a way I can find the IP address of the desktop without manually having to go there? I can do it for my laptop by going to network and sharing center view status etc. Is there a way preferably without using cmd to find the IP of a remote computer connected via LAN? Waiting for your reply. Thanks! |
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As an addendum, you can find this information by using Help and Support from
your Start Menu and search for IP address. "BehavioralCounselor" wrote: There are actually a couple of ways: On the Vista machine click the internet/network icon on the right side of your task bar. Click Network and Sharing Center. Click View Full Map. Then hold your mouse of the computer icon on the map and it will display the Internal IP Address. You can also click View Status | Details from the Network and Sharing Center instead of View Full Map. In the Details box your IP is listed beside IPv4. You can also obtain it by accessing your wireless router. On the XP: Click the internet/network icon on the task bar then click on the Support tab. You can download software or 'gadgets' that displays this information for you automatically. "Molten Ice" wrote: Hi! This might be the silliest question posted but I've looked up everywhere and tried everything i could think of. I have 2 computers connected at my home (A PC running XPsp2 wired connection and laptop Vista Home Premium via wireless connection). The connection is working fine and I can see the desktop PC from my laptop network page. My question is this: Is there a way I can find the IP address of the desktop without manually having to go there? I can do it for my laptop by going to network and sharing center view status etc. Is there a way preferably without using cmd to find the IP of a remote computer connected via LAN? Waiting for your reply. Thanks! |
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Thanks a lot for your help!
The most useful thing I found was the program called LanHelper... I got the demo version and will buy it after it expires. It's pretty handy. You guys might wanna try it out. |