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Identify a workgroup computer.

We are trying to identify some workgroup computer which the user did not put the name of the workgroup correctly.  

Is there a way to identify the IP of the computer?
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You'd have to log onto the switch it's attached to and check it in there, do you mean workgroup or domain?
Rest assured: you don't need to correct this. Work group names have not effect. They were used (decades ago), when people used the "network neighborhood), which we shouldn't even be doing anymore, today.
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rather than IP, you can use a Windows API to get the computer name. Here is the code:

VBA > API > Get Computer Name
http://msaccessgurus.com/VBA/Code/API_GetComputerName.htm
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Thanks.  Is the code to return the computer name available in Powershell?
The objective isn't clear to me:
Do you have access to the computer and can run things on it?
Or, is it just somewhere on the network and you want to know its name?
You don't know the IP address so I guess it's the latter, eh?

I would run something like NetScanner from SoftPerfect.
There are older, free versions available on the web for download.
It will scan the subnet and list all the devices that respond.
And, if Windows, it will generally be able to provide the name and the IP address and the MAC address -  as it scans all the IP addresses.
This may entail some process of elimination of course but it's one way.
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We have a lot of workgroup computers which have different workgroup names being advertised to the network.

We want to ask owner of those computers to make sure the name WORKGROUP is in the WORKGROUP field of their computer's system properties.  

Is there a way to identify the name of the computer or IP address base on the name of the WORKGROUP being advertised to the network?

Thanks.
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