Client Manager displays the following network information for the computer:
Network adapters—A description of the network adapter (or adapters) installed in the computer.
Node (MAC) address—The computer’s unique six-byte hexadecimal MAC address.
Driver rate—The speed configured for the driver to send and receive data, such as 10 Mbps or 100 Mbps.
Driver—The filename of the network adapter driver.
Driver version—The version number of the network adapter driver file.
Driver description—A description of the network adapter driver, such as NDIS 3.0 driver.
TCP/IP address—The four-byte address assigned to the computer for communicating on TCP/IP networks.
Subnet mask—The four-octet number (such as 255.255.255.0) that is paired with an IP address. This number tells an IP router which octets in the IP address are the network ID and which octets are the node ID.
Primary gateway—The IP address of the router that is configured as a default gateway for packets leaving the network.
DNS server—The IP address for each Domain Name Service (DNS) server on your network. You may have more than one.
Note
Packets transmitted—The number of network packets transmitted from the computer since startup.
Packets received—The number of network packets received at the computer since startup.
Transmit errors—The number of times since startup that the computer was unable to transmit a packet.
Receive errors—The number of times since startup that the computer was unable to receive a packet.
Host errors—The number of transmit or receive errors that have occurred since startup because of buffer overruns.
Wire errors—The number of transmit or receive errors that have occurred since startup because of CRC errors, alignment errors, or maximum collisions reached.
User—This applies only to Windows* XP, which supports Fast User Switching.
If you're logged on to Client Manager as an administrator, you will see all active network connections for all logged on users.
If you're logged on to Client Manager as a non-administrator (power user, for example), then you will not see the drive mappings of other users. You will see your own drive mappings if your Client Manager login name matches your Windows login name.
Right-click the Client Manager taskbar icon.
@@!01 To run the administrator console (if it
is installed), click Manage Computers and log on, then click the
computer you want to manage from the Select Computer list.
or
To run the client console (if it is installed), click Manage This
Computer. @@!01
@@!02 Click Manage This Computer. @@!02
Log on to the computer using your Client Manager username and password.
In the left pane under Inventory, click Network.