Well, I'm not sure if this will help, but just in case:

Could you set up a script on the server, that would run a small batch file or something on the client machines that would do this:

1) Open a network drive to a network share on a server
2) Run 'ipconfig /all >> x:\machines.txt' or something like that (Assuming they are windows clients)

You would then have the host-name, IP, and MAC address of all the computers that can log in. Perhaps it would be easier to use the hostnames if there is a hostname record somewhere? Then again, if the IT guys before you weren't smart enough to label a few hundred cables, they likely don't have such a list either.

Just a hint. We did something like that in an OS lab at school once, though it was the 'systeminfo' command.

Like I said, I'm not sure if that will work, but it might help a bit. At least you wouldn't have to go to every single machine trying to match a MAC address, you could hopefully just stick with matching hostnames, which may or may not be easier....

Why, oh why am I studying for Network Engineering??? lol

Take care everyone,


Dave