Machine network names

[J. Landman Gay]

I want to know the network name of a remote machine on a network. For a 
local machine, I can get "the address" and the first part of the address 
is the name I'm looking for.  But on a remote, mounted volume "the 
address" doesn't include its machine name. Any ideas? I only need this 
for Mac OS X, but it has to work for all but the earliest versions of OS X.

If I can't easily get the network name, then any unique identifying info 
would do. I considered getting the machine ID using Ken Ray's 
"stsGetSerialNumber" handler, but it only returns the serial numbers of 
local hard drives.

The only requirements are: it has to be a unique identifier, and it has 
to be obtainable both remotely and locally.

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Jacqueline Landman Gay         |     jacque at hyperactivesw.com
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