Windows – Find NetBIOS/WINS name of a IP

If you can communicate/connect with it some how (Ping perhaps?), then nbtstat -c should show you the computer and it's resolved IP address.

EDIT:

Check out NBTScan.exe - a utility that will do a NetBIOS scan of your subnet and return the info including IP and MAC addresses:

NBTscan is a program for scanning IP networks for NetBIOS name information. It sends NetBIOS status query to each address in supplied range and lists received information in human readable form. For each responded host it lists IP address, NetBIOS computer name, logged-in user name and MAC address.

Hope that helps...

A domain is something you will experience on a work network rather than a home environment generally speaking. immagine: computer name john netbios name is usually also john (but has stricter naming restrictions)

on a domain your full computer name may be john.company.local for example

the company.local bit being the name of the domain itself.

netbios is old way of resolving names and in many ways is not used, however is kept there in the OS for backwards compatibility.

your netbios name and computer name for all intents and purposes is nearly always the same.

out of curiosity, is there a specific piece of this from the article you linked that you dont understand and I can try and further clarify.