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@@ -1,6 +1,4 @@
-<!DOCTYPE refentry PUBLIC "-//OASIS//DTD DocBook V4.1//EN" [
-<!ENTITY % globalentities SYSTEM '../global.ent'> %globalentities;
-]>
+<!DOCTYPE refentry PUBLIC "-//OASIS//DTD DocBook V4.1//EN">
<refentry id="nmblookup">
<refmeta>
@@ -38,8 +36,8 @@
<refsect1>
<title>DESCRIPTION</title>
- <para>This tool is part of the <citerefentry><refentrytitle>Samba</refentrytitle>
- <manvolnum>7</manvolnum></citerefentry> suite.</para>
+ <para>This tool is part of the <ulink url="samba.7.html">
+ Samba</ulink> suite.</para>
<para><command>nmblookup</command> is used to query NetBIOS names
and map them to IP addresses in a network using NetBIOS over TCP/IP
@@ -68,7 +66,7 @@
query to a machine running a WINS server and the user wishes
to query the names in the WINS server. If this bit is unset
the normal (broadcast responding) NetBIOS processing code
- on a machine is used instead. See RFC1001, RFC1002 for details.
+ on a machine is used instead. See rfc1001, rfc1002 for details.
</para></listitem>
</varlistentry>
@@ -88,8 +86,8 @@
where it ignores the source port of the requesting packet
and only replies to UDP port 137. Unfortunately, on most UNIX
systems root privilege is needed to bind to this port, and
- in addition, if the <citerefentry><refentrytitle>nmbd</refentrytitle>
- <manvolnum>8</manvolnum></citerefentry> daemon is running on this machine it also binds to this port.
+ in addition, if the <ulink url="nmbd.8.html">nmbd(8)</ulink>
+ daemon is running on this machine it also binds to this port.
</para></listitem>
</varlistentry>
@@ -103,8 +101,12 @@
- &popt.common.connection;
- &stdarg.help;
+ <varlistentry>
+ <term>-h</term>
+ <listitem><para>Print a help (usage) message.</para></listitem>
+ </varlistentry>
+
+
<varlistentry>
<term>-B &lt;broadcast address&gt;</term>
@@ -113,8 +115,7 @@
query to the broadcast address of the network interfaces as
either auto-detected or defined in the <ulink
url="smb.conf.5.html#INTERFACES"><parameter>interfaces</parameter>
- </ulink> parameter of the <citerefentry><refentrytitle>smb.conf</refentrytitle>
- <manvolnum>5</manvolnum></citerefentry> file.
+ </ulink> parameter of the <filename>smb.conf (5)</filename> file.
</para></listitem>
</varlistentry>
@@ -129,8 +130,48 @@
</varlistentry>
- &popt.common.samba;
+ <varlistentry>
+ <term>-d &lt;debuglevel&gt;</term>
+ <listitem><para>debuglevel is an integer from 0 to 10.</para>
+ <para>The default value if this parameter is not specified
+ is zero.</para>
+
+ <para>The higher this value, the more detail will be logged
+ about the activities of <command>nmblookup</command>. At level
+ 0, only critical errors and serious warnings will be logged.</para>
+
+ <para>Levels above 1 will generate considerable amounts of
+ log data, and should only be used when investigating a problem.
+ Levels above 3 are designed for use only by developers and
+ generate HUGE amounts of data, most of which is extremely cryptic.</para>
+
+ <para>Note that specifying this parameter here will override
+ the <ulink url="smb.conf.5.html#LOGLEVEL"><parameter>
+ log level</parameter></ulink> parameter in the <filename>
+ smb.conf(5)</filename> file.</para></listitem>
+ </varlistentry>
+
+ <varlistentry>
+ <term>-s &lt;smb.conf&gt;</term>
+ <listitem><para>This parameter specifies the pathname to
+ the Samba configuration file, <ulink url="smb.conf.5.html">
+ smb.conf(5)</ulink>. This file controls all aspects of
+ the Samba setup on the machine.</para></listitem>
+ </varlistentry>
+
+ <varlistentry>
+ <term>-i &lt;scope&gt;</term>
+ <listitem><para>This specifies a NetBIOS scope that
+ <command>nmblookup</command> will use to communicate with when
+ generating NetBIOS names. For details on the use of NetBIOS
+ scopes, see rfc1001.txt and rfc1002.txt. NetBIOS scopes are
+ <emphasis>very</emphasis> rarely used, only set this parameter
+ if you are the system administrator in charge of all the
+ NetBIOS systems you communicate with.</para></listitem>
+ </varlistentry>
+
+
<varlistentry>
<term>-T</term>
<listitem><para>This causes any IP addresses found in the
@@ -157,7 +198,7 @@
<listitem><para>This is the NetBIOS name being queried. Depending
upon the previous options this may be a NetBIOS name or IP address.
If a NetBIOS name then the different name types may be specified
- by appending '#&lt;type&gt;' to the name. This name may also be
+ by appending '#&lt;type&gt' to the name. This name may also be
'*', which will return all registered names within a broadcast
area.</para></listitem>
</varlistentry>
@@ -170,8 +211,8 @@
<para><command>nmblookup</command> can be used to query
a WINS server (in the same way <command>nslookup</command> is
- used to query DNS servers). To query a WINS server, <command>nmblookup</command>
- must be called like this:</para>
+ used to query DNS servers). To query a WINS server,
+ <command>nmblookup</command> must be called like this:</para>
<para><command>nmblookup -U server -R 'name'</command></para>
@@ -192,10 +233,10 @@
<refsect1>
<title>SEE ALSO</title>
- <para><citerefentry><refentrytitle>nmbd</refentrytitle>
- <manvolnum>8</manvolnum></citerefentry>, <citerefentry><refentrytitle>samba</refentrytitle>
- <manvolnum>7</manvolnum></citerefentry>, and <citerefentry><refentrytitle>smb.conf</refentrytitle>
- <manvolnum>5</manvolnum></citerefentry>.</para>
+ <para><ulink url="nmbd.8.html"><command>nmbd(8)</command></ulink>,
+ <ulink url="samba.7.html">samba(7)</ulink>, and <ulink
+ url="smb.conf.5.html">smb.conf(5)</ulink>
+ </para>
</refsect1>
<refsect1>
@@ -208,11 +249,11 @@
<para>The original Samba man pages were written by Karl Auer.
The man page sources were converted to YODL format (another
- excellent piece of Open Source software, available at <ulink url="ftp://ftp.icce.rug.nl/pub/unix/">
+ excellent piece of Open Source software, available at
+ <ulink url="ftp://ftp.icce.rug.nl/pub/unix/">
ftp://ftp.icce.rug.nl/pub/unix/</ulink>) and updated for the Samba 2.0
release by Jeremy Allison. The conversion to DocBook for
- Samba 2.2 was done by Gerald Carter. The conversion to DocBook
- XML 4.2 for Samba 3.0 was done by Alexander Bokovoy.</para>
+ Samba 2.2 was done by Gerald Carter</para>
</refsect1>
</refentry>