samba - Jun 2002 - Difference between smbstatus and WINS (was WINS querying (Advance d))

Unfortunately, it appears smbstatus will only show the clients that have
accessed the shares since the last restart of the smb daemon (not a
guarantee that people will do this in our case). There appears to be a
timeout of this information as well.

WINS does keep all this information based on when the client's machine first
logs into the network, so it's a lot more accurate.

Man, I wish it was that easy.

Greg
> -----Original Message-----
> From: Nathan Ehresman [mailto:nehresma@css.tayloru.edu]
> Sent: June 19, 2002 12:18 PM
> To: WEBSTER, Greg
> Cc: samba@lists.samba.org
> Subject: Re: [Samba] WINS querying (Advanced)
> 
> 
> > If, for example, I am looking for the IP address for the 
> user 'gwebster',
> > what steps do I need to take to retreive this from the WINS server?
> 
> Would a simple smbstatus -S work?  You could then parse the 
> output into 
> something that is useful for you to use.  I've done it this 
> way in the past.
> 
> Nathan Ehresman
>