php : how to get netbios name for windows pc in a LAN?

zamri · 03-19-2006, 10:21 PM

hi all,

I want to create a web-based php program to scan a LAN to get IP, NETBIOS NAME and MAC ADDRESS. It is like nbtscan program. Anyone ?

paulsm4 · 03-19-2006, 11:53 PM

Code:

system ("ipconfig/all > c:\\temp\tmp.txt");

, then open and parse "tmp.txt" for hostname, MAC address, et al?

zamri · 03-20-2006, 12:49 AM

no. i mean how to get netbios name and other info on other computer in the same LAN.

paulsm4 · 03-20-2006, 01:10 AM

If you mean "a PHP script on the web server scan the client PC": you can't. Thank God!

If you mean "a PHP script that gets local information about the local PC, and that PC happens to be running Windows", then "ipconfig", "hostname" (for Windows 2000 and above) and "nbtstat" are the tools you're looking for.

And of course there's always the C API "gethostbyname()"...

Our of curiousity, what are you going to be using this PHP script for?

spooon · 03-20-2006, 01:21 AM

Quote:

Originally Posted by zamri

It is like nbtscan program.

Well then why don't you just call nbtscan from your script?

zamri · 03-20-2006, 01:27 AM

i mean nbtscan. for more info on nbtscan take a look here : http://www.inetcat.org/software/nbtscan.html

I want to develop a php script that can do the same as nbtscan.

err.. u know what i mean?

Wim Sturkenboom · 03-20-2006, 02:54 AM

From that page you can download the sources and compile it for your platform.
Next you can run it from within php using exec (as said by spooon).
I found the following code snippet on the net for nbtstat (it finds a username). It might help as a guideline

Code:

$ipaddress = $_SERVER["REMOTE_ADDR"];
$nbtstat = "nbtstat -A ". $ipaddress;
exec ($nbtstat,$result);
foreach ($result as $row) {
  if (strpos($row,"<03>")) $username = strtok($row," ");
}

zamri · 03-20-2006, 03:39 AM

thanks for the tip. anyone know how to write a pure php script to function the same as nbtscan?

liquidpele · 08-08-2006, 03:58 PM

Although it is technically possible to hack up a php script to connect to remote servers and parse information provided by those servers, php does not have any way to connect to network drivers for tasks beyond that. This means you CAN'T get information about hosts on a network using PHP without PHP just calling another program or server to do it and return the information. Trying to write a pure php program for this is like trying to build a car out of rubberbands.