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diff --git a/docs/manpages/nmblookup.1 b/docs/manpages/nmblookup.1 index d57ec24fa3..06e608a62e 100644 --- a/docs/manpages/nmblookup.1 +++ b/docs/manpages/nmblookup.1 @@ -3,8 +3,7 @@ .\" <http://shell.ipoline.com/~elmert/comp/docbook2X/> .\" Please send any bug reports, improvements, comments, patches, .\" etc. to Steve Cheng <steve@ggi-project.org>. -.TH "NMBLOOKUP" "1" "07 april 2003" "" "" - +.TH "NMBLOOKUP" "1" "04 March 2003" "" "" .SH NAME nmblookup \- NetBIOS over TCP/IP client used to lookup NetBIOS names .SH SYNOPSIS @@ -13,7 +12,7 @@ nmblookup \- NetBIOS over TCP/IP client used to lookup NetBIOS names .SH "DESCRIPTION" .PP -This tool is part of the \fBSamba\fR(7) suite. +This tool is part of the Samba suite. .PP \fBnmblookup\fR is used to query NetBIOS names and map them to IP addresses in a network using NetBIOS over TCP/IP @@ -34,7 +33,7 @@ to do a recursive lookup. This is used when sending a name 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. .TP \fB-S\fR Once the name query has returned an IP @@ -47,51 +46,22 @@ datagrams. The reason for this option is a bug in Windows 95 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 \fBnmbd\fR(8) daemon is running on this machine it also binds to this port. +in addition, if the nmbd(8) +daemon is running on this machine it also binds to this port. .TP \fB-A\fR Interpret \fIname\fR as an IP Address and do a node status query on this address. .TP -\fB-n <primary NetBIOS name>\fR -This option allows you to override -the NetBIOS name that Samba uses for itself. This is identical -to setting the \fINetBIOS -name\fR parameter in the \fBsmb.conf\fR(5) file. However, a command -line setting will take precedence over settings in -\fBsmb.conf\fR(5). -.TP -\fB-i <scope>\fR -This specifies a NetBIOS scope that -\fBnmblookup\fR 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 -\fBvery\fR rarely used, only set this parameter -if you are the system administrator in charge of all the -NetBIOS systems you communicate with. -.TP -\fB-W|--workgroup=domain\fR -Set the SMB domain of the username. This -overrides the default domain which is the domain defined in -smb.conf. If the domain specified is the same as the servers -NetBIOS name, it causes the client to log on using the servers local -SAM (as opposed to the Domain SAM). -.TP -\fB-O socket options\fR -TCP socket options to set on the client -socket. See the socket options parameter in -the \fBsmb.conf\fR(5) manual page for the list of valid -options. -.TP -\fB-h|--help\fR -Print a summary of command line options. +\fB-h\fR +Print a help (usage) message. .TP \fB-B <broadcast address>\fR Send the query to the given broadcast address. Without this option the default behavior of nmblookup is to send the query to the broadcast address of the network interfaces as either auto-detected or defined in the \fIinterfaces\fR - parameter of the \fBsmb.conf\fR(5) file. + parameter of the \fIsmb.conf (5)\fR file. .TP \fB-U <unicast address>\fR Do a unicast query to the specified address or @@ -99,46 +69,37 @@ host \fIunicast address\fR. This option (along with the \fI-R\fR option) is needed to query a WINS server. .TP -\fB-V\fR -Prints the version number for -\fBsmbd\fR. -.TP -\fB-s <configuration file>\fR -The file specified contains the -configuration details required by the server. The -information in this file includes server-specific -information such as what printcap file to use, as well -as descriptions of all the services that the server is -to provide. See \fIsmb.conf(5)\fR for more information. -The default configuration file name is determined at -compile time. -.TP -\fB-d|--debug=debuglevel\fR -\fIdebuglevel\fR is an integer -from 0 to 10. The default value if this parameter is -not specified is zero. +\fB-d <debuglevel>\fR +debuglevel is an integer from 0 to 10. -The higher this value, the more detail will be -logged to the log files about the activities of the -server. At level 0, only critical errors and serious -warnings will be logged. Level 1 is a reasonable level for -day to day running - it generates a small amount of -information about operations carried out. +The default value if this parameter is not specified +is zero. -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 log -data, most of which is extremely cryptic. +The higher this value, the more detail will be logged +about the activities of \fBnmblookup\fR. At level +0, only critical errors and serious warnings will be logged. -Note that specifying this parameter here will -override the log -level file. +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. + +Note that specifying this parameter here will override +the \fI log level\fR parameter in the \fI smb.conf(5)\fR file. +.TP +\fB-s <smb.conf>\fR +This parameter specifies the pathname to +the Samba configuration file, smb.conf(5) This file controls all aspects of +the Samba setup on the machine. .TP -\fB-l|--logfile=logbasename\fR -File name for log/debug files. The extension -".client" will be appended. The log file is -never removed by the client. +\fB-i <scope>\fR +This specifies a NetBIOS scope that +\fBnmblookup\fR 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 +\fBvery\fR rarely used, only set this parameter +if you are the system administrator in charge of all the +NetBIOS systems you communicate with. .TP \fB-T\fR This causes any IP addresses found in the @@ -165,8 +126,8 @@ area. .PP \fBnmblookup\fR can be used to query a WINS server (in the same way \fBnslookup\fR is -used to query DNS servers). To query a WINS server, \fBnmblookup\fR -must be called like this: +used to query DNS servers). To query a WINS server, +\fBnmblookup\fR must be called like this: .PP \fBnmblookup -U server -R 'name'\fR .PP @@ -182,7 +143,8 @@ This man page is correct for version 3.0 of the Samba suite. .SH "SEE ALSO" .PP -\fBnmbd\fR(8), \fBsamba\fR(7), and \fBsmb.conf\fR(5). +\fBnmbd(8)\fR +samba(7) and smb.conf(5) .SH "AUTHOR" .PP The original Samba software and related utilities @@ -192,7 +154,7 @@ to the way the Linux kernel is developed. .PP 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 ftp://ftp.icce.rug.nl/pub/unix/ <URL:ftp://ftp.icce.rug.nl/pub/unix/>) and updated for the Samba 2.0 +excellent piece of Open Source software, available at +ftp://ftp.icce.rug.nl/pub/unix/ <URL:ftp://ftp.icce.rug.nl/pub/unix/>) 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. +Samba 2.2 was done by Gerald Carter |