Who is on my network ?

Hi,

I've been thrown into the network abyss at work.
I'm running a peer to peer network - no server. Mostly win xp machines.

Can somebody tell me of a command (windows or dos) that tells me who is on
my network ?

Also, I think there is a command to tell who the DHCP 'master' is ???

Thanks, Jen.

There is no DHCP "master" - the first DHCP server that answers a query for
an address gets to serve the address to the client. The address of the DHCP
server will be shown in an IPCONFIG /ALL printout.

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"Jennifer W" <jenniferw@beyonddoubt.net> wrote in message
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>
> Hi,
>
> I've been thrown into the network abyss at work.
> I'm running a peer to peer network - no server. Mostly win xp machines.
>
> Can somebody tell me of a command (windows or dos) that tells me who is on
> my network ?
>
> Also, I think there is a command to tell who the DHCP 'master' is ???
>
> Thanks, Jen.
>
>

Richard,

Thanks for your reply. And this is true. I confused "server" with "master".

I recall from a couple of years ago that I was able to tell by 'name' which
PC's were active on the network and which was the DHCP
server. Or perhaps I found it by using the network adapter addresses.

Do you know of a way ?

Thanks again, Jen


"Richard G. Harper" <rgharper@email.com> wrote in message
> There is no DHCP "master" - the first DHCP server that answers a query for
> an address gets to serve the address to the client. The address of the
> DHCP server will be shown in an IPCONFIG /ALL printout.


> "Jennifer W" <jenniferw@beyonddoubt.net> wrote in message

>> Hi,
>>
>> I've been thrown into the network abyss at work.
>> I'm running a peer to peer network - no server. Mostly win xp machines.
>>
>> Can somebody tell me of a command (windows or dos) that tells me who is
>> on my network ?
>>
>> Also, I think there is a command to tell who the DHCP 'master' is ???
>>
>> Thanks, Jen.

Sorry, I'm not sure what you need. I am pretty sure it's not a native
Windows tool, probably a utility or such that you found elsewhere.

--
Richard G. Harper [MVP Shell/User] rgharper@gmail.com
* PLEASE post all messages and replies in the newsgroups
* for the benefit of all. Private mail is usually not replied to.
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"Jennifer W" <jenniferw@beyonddoubt.net> wrote in message
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> Richard,
>
> Thanks for your reply. And this is true. I confused "server" with
> "master".
>
> I recall from a couple of years ago that I was able to tell by 'name'
> which PC's were active on the network and which was the DHCP
> server. Or perhaps I found it by using the network adapter addresses.
>
> Do you know of a way ?
>
> Thanks again, Jen
>
>
> "Richard G. Harper" <rgharper@email.com> wrote in message
>> There is no DHCP "master" - the first DHCP server that answers a query
>> for an address gets to serve the address to the client. The address of
>> the DHCP server will be shown in an IPCONFIG /ALL printout.
>
>
>> "Jennifer W" <jenniferw@beyonddoubt.net> wrote in message
>
>>> Hi,
>>>
>>> I've been thrown into the network abyss at work.
>>> I'm running a peer to peer network - no server. Mostly win xp machines.
>>>
>>> Can somebody tell me of a command (windows or dos) that tells me who is
>>> on my network ?
>>>
>>> Also, I think there is a command to tell who the DHCP 'master' is ???
>>>
>>> Thanks, Jen.
>
>