Networking Protocols Interview Question:

How can Jim Herr, a client on an NT TCP/IP network see which remote hosts are currently connected using NBT?

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Display protocol statistics and current TCP/IP connections
using NBT (NetBIOS over TCP/IP).

Syntax
By Name
NBTSTAT -a Remote_host_Name [options] [interval]

By IP address
NBTSTAT -A IP_address [options] [interval]

Key
-a (adapter status) List the remote machine's name table
given its name
-A (Adapter status) List the remote machine's name table
given its IP address
-c (cache) List NBT's cache of remote [machine]
names
and their IP addresses
-n (names) List local NetBIOS names.
-r (resolved) List names resolved by broadcast and
via WINS
-R (Reload) Purge and reloads the remote cache
name table
-S (Sessions) List sessions table with the
destination IP addresses
-s (sessions) List sessions table converting
destination IP
addresses to computer NETBIOS names.
-RR (ReleaseRefresh) Send Name Release packets to WINS
and then, starts Refresh

interval Redisplay selected statistics,
pausing interval seconds
between each display. Press Ctrl+C
to stop redisplaying
statistics.

Syntax to see
which remote hosts are currently connected using NBT

c:/>nbtstat -n
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