Command used on MicroSoft platforms to display the statistics on current TCP/IP connections using NetBIOS over TCP/IP (NBT).
Handy for troubleshooting NetBIOS issues on a Windows machine.
The syntax is:
>NBTSTAT [-a RemoteName] [-A IP address] [-c] [-n] [-r] [-R] [-s] [S] [interval]
The switches are:
- -a Lists remote machine's name table
- -A Lists remote machine's name table
- -c Lists current system's remote name cache
- -n Lists local NetBIOS names
- -r Lists names resolved by broadcast via WINS
- -R Purges and reloads the remote name cache table
- -S Lists the sessions table with the destination IP addresses
- -s Lists sessions table converting destination IP addresses to host names via the hosts file.
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