RE: How to get the names of the availalbe computers on your LAN/Workgr

Hi Fernik,

As for looping network resources in local network, there are several means
such as RAW network API, wmi or ADSI:

here are some web threads discussing on this, you can have look to see
whether they help some:

API approach:

#list of computers on local network
http://www.csharpfriends.com/Forums/ShowPost.aspx?PostID=29925

#Using Network Functions in Visual C#.NET (Part II - Group Functions)
http://www.csharphelp.com/archives2/archive440.html


ADSI approach:

#Inventory of Domain Users and Computers Using ADSI
http://www.serverwatch.com/tutorials/article.php/1476791

#List of computers on local network
http://www.csharpfriends.com/Forums/ShowPost.aspx?PostID=29925


WMI:

http://www.siccolo.com/Articles/CodeProject/Build_Local_Network_Browser/Buil
d_Local_Network_Browser.html

http://www.activexperts.com/activmonitor/windowsmanagement/wmi/samples/

Sincerely,

Steven Cheng

Microsoft MSDN Online Support Lead



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From: =?Utf-8?B?RmVybmlr?= <fernik@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Subject: How to get the names of the availalbe computers on your LAN/Workgr
Date: Wed, 2 Jan 2008 18:12:01 -0800

Hi, I need to get a list of the computers in my WorkGroup LAN, with its
names
in a similar way you get the available Drives from a PC with
DriveInfo.GetDrives(). Is there a managed class that provide this, if not,
coudl you provide me some guiadance with unmanaged APIs or wrappers.
--
Fernik
http://www.fernik.com.ar


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