ups :-O
just realized that the enums PlatformId and ServerType are defined in another file.

public enum PlatformId
{
Unknown = 0,
DOS = 300,
OS2 = 400,
NT = 500,
OSF = 600,
VMS = 700,
}

[Flags]
public enum ServerType
{
Workstation = 0x00000001, // A LAN Manager workstation
Server = 0x00000002, // A LAN Manager server
SqlServer = 0x00000004, // Any server running with Microsoft SQL Server
DomainController = 0x00000008, // Primary domain controller
DomainBackupController = 0x00000010, // Backup domain controller
TimeSource = 0x00000020, // Server running the Timesource service
Afp = 0x00000040, // Apple File Protocol server
Novell = 0x00000080, // Novell server
DomainMember = 0x00000100, // LAN Manager 2.x domain member
PrintQueueServer = 0x00000200, // Server sharing print queue
DialinServer = 0x00000400, // Server running dial-in service
XenixServer = 0x00000800, // Xenix server
ServerUnix = XenixServer,
NT = 0x00001000, // Windows Server 2003, Windows XP, Windows 2000, or Windows NT
Wfw = 0x00002000, // Server running Windows for Workgroups
ServerMFPN = 0x00004000, // Microsoft File and Print for NetWare
ServerNT = 0x00008000, // Windows Server 2003, Windows 2000 server, or Windows NT server that is not a domain controller
PotentialBrowser = 0x00010000, // Server that can run the browser service
BackupBrowser = 0x00020000, // Server running a browser service as backup
MasterBrowser = 0x00040000, // Server running the master browser service
DomainMaster = 0x00080000, // Server running the domain master browser
ServerOSF = 0x00100000,
ServerVMS = 0x00200000,
Windows = 0x00400000, // Windows Me, Windows 98, or Windows 95
DFS = 0x00800000, // Root of a DFS tree
ClusterNT = 0x01000000, // NT Cluster
TerminalServer = 0x02000000, // Terminal Server
ClusterVsNT = 0x04000000, // Cluster virtual servers available in the domain
Dce = 0x10000000, // IBM DSS (Directory and Security Services) or equivalent
}

the longer answer is _Yes:).
I had once a similar problem an found that NetWkstaGetInfo[^] worked quite well. You can provide the IP address as input and get the (BIOS-)name of the machine (and other stuff) back.
If I remember correctly I've had had some security issues with workstation configurations (domain worked well). The following c# 2.0 code is all that's needed.

using System;
using System.Collections.Generic;
using System.Text;
using System.Runtime.InteropServices;
using System.Globalization;
using NetScan.Contract;
using System.Diagnostics;

namespace NetScan.Service
{
static class NetBios
{
#region public

  public class Info
  {
     private Info()
     {
     }
     internal Info(PlatformId platformId, Version version, string computerName, string lanGroup)
     {
        this.PlatformId = platformId;
        this.Version = version;
        this.ComputerName = computerName;
        this.LanGroup = lanGroup;
     }
     public readonly PlatformId PlatformId;
     public readonly Version Version;
     public readonly string ComputerName;
     public readonly string LanGroup;

     public string Comment;
     public ServerType ServerType;

     public override string ToString()
     {
        return string.Format(CultureInfo.CurrentCulture, "{0} - {1} - {2}", Version, ComputerName, LanGroup);
     }
  }

  public static Info GetInfo(string serverName)
  {
     Info retVal = null;
     System.IntPtr x;
     uint lret = NativeMethods.NetWkstaGetInfo(serverName, 100, out x);
     if (lret != 0 || x == System.IntPtr.Zero)
     {
        return null;
     }
     NativeMethods.WKSTA\_INFO\_100 wi = (NativeMethods.WKSTA\_INFO\_100)Marshal.PtrToStructure(x, typeof(NativeMethods.WKSTA\_INFO\_100));
     retVal = new Info((PlatformId)wi.wki100\_platform\_id, new Version(wi.wki100\_ver\_major, wi.wki100\_ver\_minor), Marshal.PtrToStringUni(wi.wki100\_computername), Marshal.PtrToStringUni(wi.wki100\_langroup));
     NativeMethods.NetApiBufferFree(x);

     lret = NativeMethods.NetServerGetInfo(serverName, 101, out x);
     if (lret == 0 && x != System.IntPtr.Zero)
     {
        NativeMetho

_

I just got hit by a 1 for my new article[^] and feel quite a bit cheated.
The average was 5 with 2 votes and then someone comes along and posts a 1 (without comment!) dropping me to 3.4 and straight to the bottom of the category.
I understand that no voting system is perfect and that it's difficult to solve all kinds of problems but such an obvious abuse should just not be possible.
What annoys me most is that this is the second time this happened to me (just not so obvious). Of course these spoiler votes get evened out over-time but as I don't expect more than 10 votes for the article I can be happy if the article raises to something above 4 in the years to come. Incidents like this take all the fun and ambition out of being a CPian :-(.
I think that these extreme low/high samples should be kicked out of the calculation but then I'm not very good at statistics so I wouldn't know how to do it properly. But I still think something should be done.... :mad: btw: see also the Voting - perhaps not?[^] thread.