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Prior to having these tools, if I wanted to get my local computer's IP address, I would use a FOR command to parse @ping -n 1 %computername%, or Ipconfig /all.

Now, if I want the my computers IP address, I just parse ipa. If I want the IP address of another computer on my network, I just parse ipa [computername]:

for /f "Tokens=*" %%a in ('ipa SomeComputerName') do set IP=%%a

If I want to return the computer name associated with an IP address on my network, I just parse ipn [IPAdress]:

for /f  "Tokens=*" %%a in ('ipn SomeIPAaddress') do set name=%%a

for /f  "Tokens=1 Delims=." %%a in ('ipn SomeIPAddress') do set name=%%a

Using only built-in functionality, use the following line to set the IP environment variable:

for /f "skip=1 Tokens=2 Delims=[]" %%i in ('ping -n 1 %computername%') do set ip=%%i

or

for /f "tokens=2 delims=: " %%a in ('nslookup %computername%') do set ip=%%a  

Recently there was a necessity to install a Virtual CD/DVD on many computers on the same network. And it was necessary, that CD/DVD would be set to the special letter in system. Right now existed a lot of programs which emulate CD/DVD and can mount any CDs/DVD images but as I wished to make all installation and configuration remoutly (well laziness to me to run from a computer to a computer) that was necessity, that the program could setup in silent mode. After small searches has stopped on program МagicDisc.