similar to: Impossible to obtain the NETBIOS name of a Win95 box using samba 2.0.5..0

Hello, Is there *any* way to reliablily determine the NetBIOS name of a computer when you only know their IP address? I know it is very easy to find the IP address from the NetBIOS name, but I can't seem to find any way of getting a NetBIOS name from an IP.. James deBoer (jdeboer@scsinternet.com)

I know that nmblookup can be used to find a netbios host name on the network. Is there a similar way to find a user name registered with WINS on the network? Example: I know that user_a is logged in somewhere on the network. How can I quickly determine which machine the user is logged in on? Thanks. -------------- next part -------------- HTML attachment scrubbed and removed

I am attempting to utilize BackupPC on a Fedora 14 server to backup a remote client. As I understand, it's primary mechanism for finding clients is performing a nmblookup <clientname> This works fine for computers connected to the local network. My issue is extending ?Samba's? search to encompass our other network - the point-to-point VPNs Using OpenVPN, we have a number of road

Hi all ! I have a PDC and a BDC in 2 differents subnets. I would like to sync their browse list but it doesn't seem to work. Actually here are a part my smb.conf files : PDC ------------------------------ ... remote browse sync = 10.10.20.10 remote announce = 10.10.20.10 security = user encrypt passwords = true domain logons = Yes os level = 70 preferred master = yes domain master = yes

Hi, Does anyone know how to lookup a domain's DNS name with its NetBIOS name ? And how to do the reverse? Thanks a lot. Yuquan

dear Sir, i am running red hat 6.2 on one machine and windows 95 on another but i am unable to see the linux machine in my windows pcs network neighborhood.to check my samba server i tried the tests given in DIAGNOSIS.txt.I am able to run tests 1 to 4 without error but in test 5 which says ::: "test 5 : run the command "nmblookup -B ACLIENT '*'" You Should Get The

I need a pointer to what Fine Manual I should go read to set up my netbios name resolution, because all my attempts to use netbios names are being resolved against dns ... I have one subnet (192.168.2/24), with several Fedora 11 machines and several Windows XP machines, and a couple SMB/CIFS NAS units which also share printers. No domain, it's all just a workgroup. The WinXP machines

Does know anybody a small, little, beatiful (and cheap) software replacement of PING utility for pingins machines with netbios name and with ip number and without DNS entry? Smbclient and nmblookup work fine, but I thinking in a utilitity like PING of windows95. This ping is capable to work in WINS (NETBIOS) and ip and name translation. The ping of linux dont work in this way. Samba work fine.

Is it possible to ask a machine for its NetBIOS name if it's running either Windows or Samba? I tried a few various nmblookup and smbclient command lines to no avail. I would like to be able to query a machine (by IP) and have it respond with its nb name. I've noted that if I perform an smbclient -L -I on a machine, it will not list its shares unless I get the NetBIOS name correct...

OS=Free BSD 4.4 with Samba 2.2.2 installed via source. System has 2 IP's one internal one external. I am telling samba to bind to xl0 which is my internal network. The samba system has an IP of 192.168.1.1 ------------------------------------------------------------------------ ---------------------------------------- su-2.05# nmblookup 192.168.1.1 INFO: Debug class all level = 3 (pid 96313

Hi- Ok, this is puzzling me. I have two machines on different networks running Samba 1.9.18p10. On one machine, which is running Redhat 5.1, I can do "nmblookup -A <IP ADDRESS>" and get the IP address of a host on the LAN. This network also has an NT server domain controller, but I doubt that matters in this case, since I'm querying the machine directly. The second machine

I'm trying to see what computer is accessing certain files through samba, and the SWAT status page is a useful tool for that. Problem is that for some computers, only the IP address shows, not the NetBIOS name. This is only a problem with certain computers. Since we're using DHCP on many computers I don't always know off the top of my head what computer has any given IP

Does anyone know how to resolve netbios names in Solaris? I need to be able to ping any windows box from my Sun Solaris 8 box that appears on my network. Is that possible? Thanks, Steve -------------- next part -------------- HTML attachment scrubbed and removed

I have been searching around - I cant seem to figure out if netbios browsing is supposed to work or not. # /usr/sbin/nmbd -F -S nmbd version 4.1.7 started. Copyright Andrew Tridgell and the Samba Team 1992-2013 server role = 'active directory domain controller' not compatible with running nmbd standalone. You should start 'samba' instead, and it will control starting the

Hello all, My network is configured like this: - a local network, with Windows Domain - a DMZ network for our servers We communicate between both by proxyarp. Because we need to share folders with our servers in DMZ, these servers are using samba. We have any problems to shared folders with them; ie calling them by their IP address, EXCEPT that netbios name of our servers in DMZ aren''t

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

Hi all Bear with me on this one... We have a problem connecting to a specific port via Oracle TNSPING There are two PC's in our office that are on the same network as the server (i.e. my desktop PC can not get to the server) The server has multiple network interfaces, the primary is a gigabit fibre card on IP xx.16. The secondary is a megabit card on IP xx.80 The tnsping command fails

Hi everybody ! Here is what I do : ---------------------------------------------------------------- [gui@r52h153 gui]$ nmblookup -A 128.61.107.78 Looking up status of 128.61.107.78 EL PRESIDENTE <00> - B <ACTIVE> THETAXI <00> - <GROUP> B <ACTIVE> EL PRESIDENTE <03> - B <ACTIVE> [gui@r52h153 gui]$

hello, please help me i ned get the netbios name of the machine on my RED but using browcast , how can't i do thas -- Atentamente Zulisser Zurita Jefe de Sistemas Operativos Running DEBIAN testing GNU/Linux 2.4.18

My LAN has a single linux/samba server as a PDC/file server, and several windows workstations. The workstations get their IP addresses from a Linksys cable router DHCP server. I can't get the linux machine to resolve the NETBios names of the windows machines. >From the Linux machine I can see the Internet through the DSL router, I can ping the windows machines by IP address, but