How to Find if a machine exists on LAN just by using Machine Name.

[RuchirD]

Hello, I need to check if a given machine exists on LAN or Not, the only information I can use to call the function is Machine Name nothing else. Pls Help. Thanks n Regards. RuchirDhar Dwivedi Software Engineer Windowmaker Software Pvt.Ltd. Baroda, India.

[ThatsAlok]

you have to make your function that will check for existance of Machine in Network you can these api to enumerate the Machine on network:-

Use WNetOpenEnum to Open Handle then do
Enumertation by WNetEnumResource finally close
it by WNetCloseEnum

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