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by shannon.murphy

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Does anyone know how to edit the Dhcp.mdb database to compare IP address assoication with a computer name with packet sniffer results? Neither Access 97 or 2000 can open this database (unrecoginzed format)? Thanks.

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by lukemc

Not 100% clear on what you are trying to do here, but if your network is using WINS for name resolution, you can type in
"ping -a a.b.c.d" to resolve the NetBIOS name from the IP address.
You can't open the DHCP.mdb file with anything other than the dhcpadmn.exe utility which is part of the NT resource kit.

by lukemc

Not 100% clear on what you are trying to do here, but if your network is using WINS for name resolution, you can type in
"ping -a a.b.c.d" to resolve the NetBIOS name from the IP address.
You can't open the DHCP.mdb file with anything other than the dhcpadmn.exe utility which is part of the NT resource kit.

by shannon.murphy

I am trying to find an easy way to map each IP address to a computer name to compare with our packet sniffer results which show only IP address (in other words who is going where). Downloaded a thrid party utility to do this last night. Thanks forthe information on opening dhcp.mdb, thought something like using the resource kit might be the case, but was hoping there was a way to convert the database to be readable by Access.

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