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| author | Andrew Bartlett <abartlet@samba.org> | 2003-01-13 12:54:59 +0000 |
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| committer | Andrew Bartlett <abartlet@samba.org> | 2003-01-13 12:54:59 +0000 |
| commit | 80120a79bc5381d86241b4173f085a00f5bb7e01 (patch) | |
| tree | 068fe4cabadd7f1885cfc4ace30ad3c8d5d4fda5 /docs | |
| parent | e3293c7181525a069d2006c29792a1a805d93ee0 (diff) | |
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Patch from ab, to make findsmb omit -r most of the time.
(original mail follows)
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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.
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/ Alexander Bokovoy
(This used to be commit d0bebea521e12fb9cef66feecd969216607ef63d)
Diffstat (limited to 'docs')
| -rw-r--r-- | docs/docbook/manpages/findsmb.1.sgml | 19 |
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> |