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I want to be able to resolve windows machine names to their IP addresses while using Linux. What I'd like to be able to do, from my linux box at the command line is this, ping windows_machine_name Is there any way I can do this?

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)