I made a somewhat deep check for time synchronization and I couldn't find what I was looking for. What I need to do is synchronize the clock on a Linux box to the clock on an NT server. I can't use NTP or any other protocol because the NT box doesn't understand it. Any pointers would be great. The second issue is that I need to do (if possible) a reverse NetBios name lookup by hitting a WINS server or something. Our DNS server doesn't know about a good 50% of our network (which is fine, because these are inaccessable Win3.1 boxes or Win95 boxes), but our WINS server does and I would like to get at the data. However, it would be plainly silly to go through all possible alphanumeric (and then some) combinations of 15 or less letters. It isn't silly to do a lookup of all possible IP addresses on our network, which is what I would like to do. Please let me know if either of these is/is not possible and how. Thank you, and thanks for the nice (Samba) product.
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On Tue, 17 Mar 1998, Ben Kosse wrote:> The second issue is that I need to do (if possible) a reverse > NetBios name lookup by hitting a WINS server or something. Our DNS > server doesn't know about a good 50% of our network (which is fine, > because these are inaccessable Win3.1 boxes or Win95 boxes), but our > WINS server does and I would like to get at the data. However, it would > be plainly silly to go through all possible alphanumeric (and then some) > combinations of 15 or less letters. It isn't silly to do a lookup of all > possible IP addresses on our network, which is what I would like to do.Check out the WindowsNT 4.0 Server Resource kit. There is a utility called WINSDMP.EXE which can dump the contents of a WINS database (local or remote) to a CSV file. I've never tried it against a Samba WINS server, so I don't know if it will help. FYI: The tool only runs on NT Server. [Darrin] "I have no special gift. I am only passionately curious." - A. Einstein Darrin M. Gorski, Research Computer Systems Network Support Scientific Research Laboratories, Ford Motor Company Internet: dgorski@ford.com | Tel/Fax: +1 (313) 248-3753
>All sorts of NTP stuff for NT (I'm running a port of the reference NTP >software on NT boxes here syncing them to unix boxes, though I haven'tdone>the other).Let me try to say this again, I cannot add any services to the NT boxes. I absolutely need to make this a purely client thing. Similarly, I can't use the WINS dump thing because it doesn't run on the Linux box (it's a clandestine infiltration attempt :)>Btw, if anyone knows how to unsub here, let me know. Changing jobssoon>and I've not yet gotten a reply from listproc@samba.anu.edu.au and >wondering how long that should take.mail to listproc@samba.anu.edu.au with message body 'unsubscribe samba'
On Mon, 16 Mar 1998, Ben Kosse wrote:> I made a somewhat deep check for time synchronization and I > couldn't find what I was looking for. What I need to do is synchronize > the clock on a Linux box to the clock on an NT server. I can't use NTP > or any other protocol because the NT box doesn't understand it. Any > pointers would be great.Hi, Look for a shareware product called tardis - runs on NT and W95 to synchronise the clock with a Unix-based ntp server. Works for us with 20+ workstations, three NT servers, all synchronised to our gateway machine, which sets its clock by the 'net. --- Peter Blake ppb@hft.co.uk ppb@baloo.tcp.co.uk