Re: how can i find out a netbios name from an IP address.

1998-12-17 Thread Rainer Clasen
Hi! Joe Emenaker ([EMAIL PROTECTED]): > >are there any other tools that can do it? > > The only thing I could find is to look in /var/samba/browse.dat and then use > nmblookup on each one. Problem is, browse.dat doesn't hold all of the > machines. What you need is a way to list all of the machine

Re: how can i find out a netbios name from an IP address.

1998-12-15 Thread Craig Sanders
On Tue, 15 Dec 1998, Jens B. Jorgensen wrote: > 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

Re: how can i find out a netbios name from an IP address.

1998-12-15 Thread Joe Emenaker
>are there any other tools that can do it? The only thing I could find is to look in /var/samba/browse.dat and then use nmblookup on each one. Problem is, browse.dat doesn't hold all of the machines. What you need is a way to list all of the machines in a domain... but I couldn't figure out how to

Re: how can i find out a netbios name from an IP address.

1998-12-15 Thread Jens B. Jorgensen
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 pos

how can i find out a netbios name from an IP address.

1998-12-15 Thread Craig Sanders
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 th