JSI Tip 3181. The NBTSTAT -c command displays a period in the Name column?

Jerold Schulman

December 21, 2000

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When you type NBTSTAT -c at a CMD prompt, the display contains a period in the Name column:

                  NetBIOS Remote Cache Name Table        Name              Type       Host Address    Life [sec]    ------------------------------------------------------------    PDCNAME          UNIQUE          10.0.0.1            -1    PDCNAME          UNIQUE          10.0.0.1            -1    PDCNAME          UNIQUE          10.0.0.1            -1    DOMAINNAME       GROUP           10.0.0.1            -1    DOMAINNAME    .  UNIQUE          10.0.0.1            -1    DOMAINNAME    .  UNIQUE          10.0.0.1            -1    DOMAINNAME    .  UNIQUE          10.0.0.1            -1                  ^                  |    (Period) -----|

The period is caused by an incorrect entry in the LMHOSTS file:

10.0.0.1        "Domainname    x1b"#PRE                  

The NetBIOS name must be exactly 15 characters, so the number of characters between the quote marks MUST be 20:

10.0.0.1        "Domainname     x1b"#PRE                  

See tip 2988 and links.


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