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Ping command in XP
Name: kumar99 Date: May 22, 2007 at 02:47:46 Pacific OS: Windows XP Sp2 CPU/Ram: Pentium Dual core, 512MB Product: Lenovo
Comment:
Hello This is regarding the switch -a in PING command that find outs the hostname.
on a win98 PC, if I give the command Ping -a 192.16.1.15 , it pings and give the hostname 'sales7', where Sales7 is name of that PC.
If I try the same command on Win XP, it pings but doesn't display the computer name 'Sales7'.
How to get the host name by using Ping command in XP?
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