NET VIEW alternative for Win10

zevel · 24 Sep 2021

Apparently NET VIEW (without parameters) functionality is dependent on the insecure and deprecated SMB1 protocol, which is disabled by recent versions of Windows 10 (mine is 20H2).
Windows Explorer works just fine without it but I am trying to get a list of computers on the network (their NETBIOS names) on the command line, and getting:

Code:

> net view
System error 1231 has occurred.
The network location cannot be reached. For information about network troubleshooting, see Windows Help.

Is there an alternative?

Thank you!

Try3 · 25 Sep 2021

One alternative is explained in
net view - SS64

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zevel · 25 Sep 2021

Try3 said:

One alternative is explained in
net view - SS64

This one?

Code:

# List the non-admin$ ("Type=0") file shares on the remote server: SERVER64
...

I am trying to get a list of machine names on the network, not the shares on a known one.

- - - Updated - - -

Success!

Code:

@echo off
setlocal enableextensions enabledelayedexpansion
for /f "skip=3 tokens=1,3" %%a in ('arp -a') do (
  set ip=%%a
  if "%%b" == "dynamic" if not "!ip:~0,7!" == "169.254" (
    for /f "skip=8 tokens=1-3" %%b in ('nbtstat -A %%a') do (
      if "%%c" == "<00>" if "%%d" == "UNIQUE" echo %%a	%%b
)))

The spacing in the echo is a TAB character to make the columns align.

It is slow, since arp displays non-NETBIOS devices as well, and nbtstat takes its sweet time to fail on them. I tried to filter the obvious ones out.

It's ugly as frell but it works.

Improvements are welcome.