In a post a few days ago (Your Device is Showing) I mentioned the concerns that a few users had about their devices being visible to other people on their respective phone networks through Resco Explorer. Using a network packet monitoring tool I was able to write some code that performed netbios queries and was able to obtain the same names that Resco Explorer had received.  Requesting the name of a device is straight forward.  Just send a request to the device to be queried into UDP port 137 and extract the name from the response.  The byte stream to send is as follows.

NameRequest = new byte[]{
0x80, 0x94, 0x00, 0x00, 0x00, 0x01, 0x00, 0x00,
0x00, 0x00, 0x00, 0x00, 0x20, 0x43, 0x4b, 0x41,
0x41, 0x41, 0x41, 0x41, 0x41, 0x41, 0x41, 0x41,
0x41, 0x41, 0x41, 0x41, 0x41, 0x41, 0x41, 0x41,
0x41, 0x41, 0x41, 0x41, 0x41, 0x41, 0x41, 0x41,
0x41, 0x41, 0x41, 0x41, 0x41, 0x00, 0x00, 0x21,
0x00, 0x01 };

In the response byte stream you can extract the name from the 57th byte of the response to the 75th byte.  The name will be padded with spaces if it is less than 16 characters.  I did run into a problem in implementing this.  Many Windows CE builds don’t contain an implementation for timeout functionality on ports when listening and there doesn’t seem to be way to abort listening for a response without introducing a resource leak.  This is something worth revisiting once I have more information.