Along with MAC tracing, using CDP to id next-hop switches, etc. you can also try to us something like psloggedon (or psshutdown if you have something of a mean-streak) from sysinternals.com. OR - if your domain is logging successful logins, maybe you could look through them to see who is logging in from that machine.
... get the user's name, send them a "friendly request" to modify their system accordingly. Or, if their policies permit, you could always sniff traffic from their IP looking for login names. May require some SPANning or 'traffic engineering' to get their packets to you ... (sorry the first couple weren't more 'network oriented' answers :)) Please let us know what you find / how you find it ... Thanks! TJ -----Original Message----- From: Priscilla Oppenheimer [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Sent: Friday, December 06, 2002 1:23 PM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: OT finding station trying to become MasterBrowser [7:58701] I don't think there's any answer to this, but I thought I would check. How can I find the physical location of a system if I know the following: NetBIOS name, IP address, MAC Address, and the Domain it is attached too. I have a system that is trying to become the Master Browser and I've discovered all of the above information. The problem is, it's a large flat network, so the IP address comes from a huge pool and doesn't help identify a network segment. The NetBIOS name isn't helpful and the vendor code in the MAC address is shared by almost all the systems. Any utilities that you know of that could help find this station? It's a city-wide school system and driving around from school to school isn't practical, although it is a rather small city... :-) Any info would be great. Thanks. Priscilla ****************************************************************************** The information in this email is confidential and may be legally privileged. Access to this email by anyone other than the intended addressee is unauthorized. If you are not the intended recipient of this message, any review, disclosure, copying, distribution, retention, or any action taken or omitted to be taken in reliance on it is prohibited and may be unlawful. If you are not the intended recipient, please reply to or forward a copy of this message to the sender and delete the message, any attachments, and any copies thereof from your system. ****************************************************************************** Message Posted at: http://www.groupstudy.com/form/read.php?f=7&i=58717&t=58701 -------------------------------------------------- FAQ, list archives, and subscription info: http://www.groupstudy.com/list/cisco.html Report misconduct and Nondisclosure violations to [EMAIL PROTECTED]