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authorAndrew Bartlett <abartlet@samba.org>2003-01-13 12:54:59 +0000
committerAndrew Bartlett <abartlet@samba.org>2003-01-13 12:54:59 +0000
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Patch from ab, to make findsmb omit -r most of the time.
(original mail follows) -- From: Alexander Bokovoy <a.bokovoy@sam-solutions.net> Greetings! I propose to make an optional argument '-r' for findsmb utility to pass '-r' option to nmblookup optionally and default to omit it. The reason is to have findsmb working more user-friendly in contemporary office environments where Windows 95/98 boxes are rare and also to allow usage of the utility under non-priviledged accounts when Windows95/98 boxes are in minority or even absent in network neighbourhood. An attached patch provides this change for HEAD together with documentation changes. -- / Alexander Bokovoy (This used to be commit d0bebea521e12fb9cef66feecd969216607ef63d)
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-rw-r--r--docs/docbook/manpages/findsmb.1.sgml19
1 files changed, 15 insertions, 4 deletions
diff --git a/docs/docbook/manpages/findsmb.1.sgml b/docs/docbook/manpages/findsmb.1.sgml
index fb953b9f25..a246b162b1 100644
--- a/docs/docbook/manpages/findsmb.1.sgml
+++ b/docs/docbook/manpages/findsmb.1.sgml
@@ -40,6 +40,15 @@
<variablelist>
<varlistentry>
+ <term>-r</term>
+ <listitem><para>Controls whether <command>findsmb</command> takes
+ bugs in Windows95 into account when trying to find a Netbios name
+ registered of the remote machine. This option is disabled by default
+ because it is specific to Windows 95 and Windows 95 machines only.
+ If set, <ulink url="nmblookup.1.html"><command>nmblookup</command></ulink>
+ will be called with <constant>-B<constant> option.</para></listitem>
+ </varlistentry>
+ <varlistentry>
<term>subnet broadcast address</term>
<listitem><para>Without this option, <command>findsmb
</command> will probe the subnet of the machine where
@@ -66,15 +75,17 @@
not show any information about the operating system or server
version.</para>
- <para>The command must be run on a system without <ulink
+ <para>The command with <constant>-r</constant> option
+ must be run on a system without <ulink
url="nmbd.8.html"><command>nmbd</command></ulink> running.
If <command>nmbd</command> is running on the system, you will
only get the IP address and the DNS name of the machine. To
get proper responses from Windows 95 and Windows 98 machines,
- the command must be run as root. </para>
+ the command must be run as root and with <constant>-r</constant>
+ option on a machine without <command>nmbd</command> running.</para>
- <para>For example, running <command>findsmb</command> on a machine
- without <command>nmbd</command> running would yield output similar
+ <para>For example, running <command>findsmb</command> without
+ <constant>-r</constant> option set would yield output similar
to the following</para>
<screen><computeroutput>