NBTSTAT - How to use this command on your computer

Nbtstat is a dos command to help troubleshoot NetBIOS name resolution problems. When a network is functioning normally, NetBIOS over TCP/IP (NetBT) resolves NetBIOS names to IP addresses.


The proper usage of NBTSTAT command is:


NBTSTAT [ [-a RemoteName] [-A IP address] [-c] [-n]
[-r] [-R] [-RR] [-s] [-S] [interval] ]


Where the different syntaxes are explained below.

NBTSTAT -a (adapter status) Lists the remote machine's name table given its name
NBTSTAT -A (Adapter status) Lists the remote machine's name table given its
IP address.
NBTSTAT -c (cache) Lists NBT's cache of remote [machine] names and their IP
addresses
NBTSTAT -n (names) Lists local NetBIOS names.Displays protocol statistics and current TCP/IP connections using NBT(NetBIOS over TCP/IP).
NBTSTAT -r (resolved) Lists names resolved by broadcast and via WINS
NBTSTAT -R (Reload) Purges and reloads the remote cache name table
NBTSTAT -S (Sessions) Lists sessions table with the destination IP addresses
NBTSTAT -s (sessions) Lists sessions table converting destination IP
addresses to computer NETBIOS names.
NBTSTAT -RR (ReleaseRefresh) Sends Name Release packets to WINS and then, starts Refresh


The other terms are:

RemoteName: Remote host machine name.
IP address: Dotted decimal representation of the IP address.
Interval: Redisplays selected statistics, pausing interval seconds
between each display. Press Ctrl+C to stop redisplaying
statistics.