A systems administrator can ping a legacy Windows file server at 10.15.20.45 but cannot map its shared folder by using the server's NetBIOS name. The administrator wants to confirm whether another device is registering the same NetBIOS name by displaying the remote host's NetBIOS name table directly via its IP address. Which nbtstat switch should the administrator use with the IP address to retrieve that information?
The switch that displays the NetBIOS name table of a remote host when the host is identified by its IP address is -A. The -a switch performs the same task only when you specify the remote computer's NetBIOS host name. The -n switch lists the local computer's registered NetBIOS names, and -R purges the local NetBIOS name cache and reloads any #PRE entries from the LMHOSTS file; neither of these displays a remote host's name table.
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