Ryszard, On Sun, 22 Apr 2001, Ryszard Lach wrote:
> On Sat, Apr 21, 2001 at 03:10:12PM -0500, Steve Langasek wrote: > > Hello, > > On Sat, 21 Apr 2001, Ryszard Lach wrote: > > > Package: wnpp > > > Severity: wishlist > > > NBTscan is a program for scanning IP networks for NetBIOS name > > > information. It > > > sends NetBIOS status query to each address in supplied range and lists > > > received > > > information in human readable form. For each responded host it lists IP > > > address, > > > NetBIOS computer name, logged-in user name and MAC address > > What are the advantages of using this program instead of 'nmblookup' from > > the > > samba-common package? > They say (and write in manual) that nmblookup can find any host names > searching > with given broadcast, but I did not manage to force it to receive an output > like > this: > $ nbtscan 192.168.1.0/24 > IP address NetBIOS Name Server User MAC address > ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ > 192.168.1.2 PROD <server> PROD 00-48-54-53-09-ca > 192.168.1.8 SIACO <server> SIACO 00-00-00-00-00-00 > 192.168.1.20 RALF <server> RALF 00-00-00-00-00-00 > 192.168.1.44 GUCIO <server> GUCIO 00-00-00-00-00-00 > 192.168.1.97 CYTOP <server> CYTOP 00-00-00-00-00-00 [snip] > I think this tool is very useful. If you don't - I won't waste my time for > packaging it. As long as someone finds this tool useful, I would never tell you that you shouldn't package it. I was just curious why someone had written another tool for looking up netbios names. I think it would be ideal if nmblookup was good enough that people didn't have to write other C programs to do the same thing. :) Steve Langasek postmodern programmer
