You're in luck! I once was desirous of just such a thing myself and since it didn't exist (but I knew this was possible since you can do it in NT) I went ahead and wrote one myself. It's command line and you give it the IP of the machine and it spits out the name. Actually I added a few more possibilities into it. I'll be happy to send you source but you'll need egcs and STL support since it's written in C++ and uses STL collection classes. As a bonus I'll include my "wins proxy" daemon which I use to allow my computer access to WINS servers I need without having my computer try to register itself with that server, etc. etc. (Useful to a truly limited set of people, granted.) I've created classes which encapsulate the netbios-ns message and the questions and resource records. Actually I think it's a pretty slick set of objects. I'll email you the tar.gz of the source.
Craig Sanders wrote: > i install quite a few (debian linux) internet gateway boxes with samba > installed so that the client can get their /var/www directory in network > neighbourhood. > > in order to diagnose network faults (i.e "WTF can't the stupid doze boxes > see/login to/etc the samba share?"), i often need to find out the netbios > name of a machine. for some reason this seems to an extraordinarily > difficult thing to find out if you don't already known it... > > given that: > > a) i don't have a windows machine, > b) i don't want no stinking GUI tool, > c) i'm usually not on site (logged in with ssh), > > how can i find out the netbios name of a machine when i have it's IP > address? > > can samba do it? smbclient doesn't want to do anything unless i already > know the name. > > are there any other tools that can do it? nat (part of the smb-nat > package) sometimes works, but only if nmbd isn't running...wierd. nat > also tries to do too much...all i want is the netbios name, i don't want > it to try it's lame cracking attempts. > > (at worst, i suppose i could hack the source of nat so that it just does > what i want. nat10 is GPL code, based on samba.) > > any pointers to command line tools which would be useful to a unix geek > would be very much appreciated. > > thanks, > > craig > > -- > craig sanders -- Jens B. Jorgensen [EMAIL PROTECTED]
