How to convert 'computer name' into IP address on home network of XP computers?

How do I use the 'computer name' of a computer on my home network of XP Pro computers to lookup the ip address of that computer remotely?

I have a home network with 3 XP Pro computers. One has no monitor and is only accessible via IP address using RealVNC. The IP address recently changed, and for some reason it doesn't show up on my router's DHCP table. I can browse to the computer via 'my network' and I can print to the attached printer. I want to look up it's new IP address so that I can connect with RealVNC

Thanks.

How to convert 'computer name' into IP address on home network of XP computers?moto guzzi

If you know the host name for the computer, you can ping the host name directly which resolves the IP address to the Dynamic DNS tables in your XP configuration.

You would do this from the command prompt:

Start %26gt; Run %26gt; cmd

for a host name of "laptop" you would simply type:

ping laptop

Once you type in the ping command and the IP address is resolved, the output from the command should look something like this example:

Pinging laptop [192.168.0.102] with 32 bytes of data:

The IP address for the host would be in the brackets. This will take the guess work out of it as opposed to pinging a range of IP addresses.

Also, provided Dynamic DNS is working properly, you may be able to enter the host name into the Connect prompt in RealVNC. I use WinVNC so I'm not familiar with the RealVNC interface, but try it out and see if that works. It does work using the host name in WinVNC. In large enterprise level environments, DHCP is used with hundreds of IP's in the address pool, and the developers for the VNC programs realize this. I would be surprised if RealVNC doesn't support using host names in addition to IP addresses.