samba - May 1998 - Pinging a netbios name

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.

/Salva
Thanks in advances.

salva@umh.es wrote:
> 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.
Why get a new utility? Off the top of my head:

  #!/bin/sh

  if [ "$1" == "" ] 
  then
     echo syntax: $0 destination
     exit
  fi

  DEST=`/usr/local/samba/bin/nmblookup $1 | grep '<00>' | sed -e
's/\([^ ]*\) [a-z]*<00>/\1/'`
  [ "$DEST" != "" ] || DEST=$1

  ping $DEST

This could probably use some cleaning up, but that's the basic idea.

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