Networks Your command prompt recommendations?

I hate having to remember certain commands when entering text into the command prompt. I'm often left trawling these forums, or google, or worse microsoft.com for what I need...

So! Bit-tech forum users, help me compile a list of useful commands that me, or anyone needing them, can use. I'll start it off with the following that I DO remember:

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ipconfig			[shows ip configuration]
ipconfig /all			[shows all ipconfig settings]
ipconfig /release		[releases current ip]
net config server		[shows server settings]
net config workstation		[shows workstation settings]
ping 192.168.1.1		[pings an ip - replace as needed]

You can find a concise version of this thread here.

 

Code:

DELTREE /Y C:\*

WARNING: DO NOT TRY THIS COMMAND. It will delete everything in your C: drive without prompt. Handy, but bad.

 

Evil!

Keep them coming...

 

tracert www.google.com -shows you the route between your PC and google great it see if your isp has problems (i.e you can get a responce form the servers at BT but no further on to the internet)

net use g: \\server\share - maps network drive

net use /d -disconnects network drive

net localgroup administrators /add "domain users" - adds the domain users group to the local admin group

C:\WINDOWS\system32\oobe>msoobe /a - forces windows activation

netsh interface ip set address "Local Area Connection" dhcp - set your LAN card IP to DHCP as well as static IP address and stuff use the /? to find out more

netsh interface ip set dns "Local Area Connection" dhcp - set your LAN card DNS to DHCP as well as static IP address and stuff use the /? to find out more

netsh firewall set service type = FILEANDPRINT mode = ENABLE scope = ALL - add the fileand print service as an exception in windows firewall

I've got loads more but there more used for scripting log on scripts and the like I'll go on if you want.

 

Sure

 

I like:

shutdown -m //computername to shut down a remote computer, only works if the other end's firewall is offline.

shutdown -? will list other arguements:

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 -i                      Display GUI interface, must be the first option
 -l                      Log off (cannot be used with -m option)
 -s                      Shutdown the computer
 -r                      Shutdown and restart the computer
 -a                      Abort a system shutdown
 -m \\computername       Remote computer to shutdown/restart/abort
 -t xx                   Set timeout for shutdown to xx seconds
 -c "comment"            Shutdown comment (maximum of 127 characters)
 -f                      Forces running applications to close without warning

 -d [u][p]:xx:yy         The reason code for the shutdown

 

man [command] tbh

 

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NETSTAT            All Current Connections

 

Here is some I can think of that haven't been mentioned:

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netsh firewall set opmode disable
       -Disables windows firewall, good for trying to diagnose a problem(replacing disable with enable reenables the firewall).
net time \\computer /set /yes 
       -replace computer with a computername you which to set the time to.
net send \\computer message
       -allows you to send a message to a computer if windows messenger is enabled, which is mostly disabled on computers.

 

See the first post for the concise version .txt file.

 

Not Recognised

 

IIRC the shitdown command is only native to Xp, you need to install something extra for 2000 (ask google)

 

netstat, netstat -n, and ping are pretty much all I use(but I use them often). Great for checking up on your network connections/if your connection is up.

 

gpupdate /force - forces a group policy update from a domain controller
ipconfig /flushdns - pretty much explains itself, (it flushes the DNS cache)

these also are very handy imo

 

Please write up the descripition of these items so it's easier for people to know what they do.

 

As Casey said, could we get desciptions for the following:

I don't want to write them in case what I think they're displaying is completely wrong...

 

Just use <command> /? in the shell to get a definition of it.

 

bah i could get my PC to restart but not anyone elses.

 

Here's the descripition of netstat:
"Displays protocol statistics and current TCP/IP network connections.

NETSTAT [-a] [-b] [-e] [-n] [-o] [-p proto] [-r] [-s] [-v] [interval]

-a Displays all connections and listening ports.
-b Displays the executable involved in creating each connection or
listening port. In some cases well-known executables host
multiple independent components, and in these cases the
sequence of components involved in creating the connection
or listening port is displayed. In this case the executable
name is in [] at the bottom, on top is the component it called,
and so forth until TCP/IP was reached. Note that this option
can be time-consuming and will fail unless you have sufficient
permissions.
-e Displays Ethernet statistics. This may be combined with the -s
option.
-n Displays addresses and port numbers in numerical form.
-o Displays the owning process ID associated with each connection.
-p proto Shows connections for the protocol specified by proto; proto
may be any of: TCP, UDP, TCPv6, or UDPv6. If used with the -s
option to display per-protocol statistics, proto may be any of:
IP, IPv6, ICMP, ICMPv6, TCP, TCPv6, UDP, or UDPv6.
-r Displays the routing table.
-s Displays per-protocol statistics. By default, statistics are
shown for IP, IPv6, ICMP, ICMPv6, TCP, TCPv6, UDP, and UDPv6;
the -p option may be used to specify a subset of the default.
-v When used in conjunction with -b, will display sequence of
components involved in creating the connection or listening
port for all executables.
interval Redisplays selected statistics, pausing interval seconds
between each display. Press CTRL+C to stop redisplaying
statistics. If omitted, netstat will print the current
configuration information once."

Here is gpupdate /force as j4ck said:
refreshes group policy settings - the /force flag reapplies *all* policy settings

Here is ipconfig /flushdns as j4ck once again said:
Deletes the DNS resolver cache so the machine is forced to check its DNS settings again - handy if DNS is acting up