finding ip address

does anyone know how to find the ip address of a computer
without needing to physically be at that computer?
possibly by going through the network neighborhood, or is
there a program i would need to download to be able to do
this?

How do you propose to identify the computer?

Do you know the URL?

How about the MAC address?


"Sam" <(E-Mail Removed)> wrote in message
news:e26001c43c4e$ca4ce850$(E-Mail Removed)...
> does anyone know how to find the ip address of a computer
> without needing to physically be at that computer?
> possibly by going through the network neighborhood, or is
> there a program i would need to download to be able to do
> this?

In article <e26001c43c4e$ca4ce850$(E-Mail Removed)>, "Sam"
<(E-Mail Removed)> wrote:
>does anyone know how to find the ip address of a computer
>without needing to physically be at that computer?
>possibly by going through the network neighborhood, or is
>there a program i would need to download to be able to do
>this?

Open a command prompt window and ping the other computer by name.
Here's an example from my network:

C:\Documents and Settings\Steve>ping toshiba

Pinging toshiba [192.168.123.107] with 32 bytes of data:

Reply from 192.168.123.107: bytes=32 time=3ms TTL=128
Reply from 192.168.123.107: bytes=32 time=3ms TTL=128
Reply from 192.168.123.107: bytes=32 time=3ms TTL=128
Reply from 192.168.123.107: bytes=32 time=3ms TTL=128

Ping statistics for 192.168.123.107:
Packets: Sent = 4, Received = 4, Lost = 0 (0% loss),
Approximate round trip times in milli-seconds:
Minimum = 3ms, Maximum = 3ms, Average = 3ms
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