samba - Nov 2001 - Sending a 'winpopup' message by IP.

Hi there.

how do I send a winpopup message to a machine knowing its IP only? 

I tryed witch 'smbclient -M ' but I need the netbios for that machine...
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          Enrique Iglesias Rodriguez
              System Administrator
  http://www.intelideas.net     Madrid, Spain
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CtrInt

lookup the netbios name for the machine:

nmblookup -A x.x.x.x

look for the <00> line that doesn't have <GROUP> on it
ex:        FAMILY          <00> -         B <ACTIVE>
                                    
>how do I send a winpopup message to a machine knowing its IP only?
>
>I tryed witch 'smbclient -M ' but I need the netbios for that
machine...
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Vance Lankhaar
Email: vance@pcsscreston.ca
Alternate Email: vlankhaar@hotmail.com

I just tried it on my machine and it worked just fine.
smbclient -M 192.168.0.2
If you run
smbclient -L ipnumber -d5 | less
and
smbclient -L machinename -d5 | less
you will see just after the password prompt how smbclient tries to resolve
the address of the target machine. This might show you the solution.
NOW, the above worked fine with a linux target. It FAILED with a windows 98
target. This sounds like some windows problem.
So, I would use nmblookup -A ipnumber to show the netbios name of the
windows client.
Joel
On Mon, Nov 12, 2001 at 06:26:58PM +0100, Enrique Iglesias Rodriguez
wrote:
> Hi there.
> 
> how do I send a winpopup message to a machine knowing its IP only? 
> 
> I tryed witch 'smbclient -M ' but I need the netbios for that
machine...
> -- 
>           Enrique Iglesias Rodriguez
>               System Administrator
>   http://www.intelideas.net     Madrid, Spain
> --
> CtrInt
> 
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At 05:42 PM 11/12/2001 -0500, Joel Hammer wrote:
>I just tried it on my machine and it worked just fine.
>smbclient -M 192.168.0.2
>If you run
>smbclient -L ipnumber -d5 | less
>and
I tried to above on my suse linux machine to my win xp machine an it said 
session request failed.

wonder what is causing it to fail.


jack