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+++ b/docs/manpages/nmblookup.1
@@ -1,17 +1,18 @@
-.\" This manpage has been automatically generated by docbook2man-spec
-.\" from a DocBook document. docbook2man-spec can be found at:
-.\" <http://shell.ipoline.com/~elmert/hacks/docbook2X/>
+.\" This manpage has been automatically generated by docbook2man
+.\" from a DocBook document. This tool can be found at:
+.\" <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" "28 January 2002" "" ""
+.TH "NMBLOOKUP" "1" "01 October 2002" "" ""
.SH NAME
nmblookup \- NetBIOS over TCP/IP client used to lookup NetBIOS names
.SH SYNOPSIS
-.sp
-\fBnmblookup\fR [ \fB-M\fR ] [ \fB-R\fR ] [ \fB-S\fR ] [ \fB-r\fR ] [ \fB-A\fR ] [ \fB-h\fR ] [ \fB-B <broadcast address>\fR ] [ \fB-U <unicast address>\fR ] [ \fB-d <debug level>\fR ] [ \fB-s <smb config file>\fR ] [ \fB-i <NetBIOS scope>\fR ] [ \fB-T\fR ] \fBname\fR
+
+\fBnmblookup\fR [ \fB-M\fR ] [ \fB-R\fR ] [ \fB-S\fR ] [ \fB-r\fR ] [ \fB-A\fR ] [ \fB-h\fR ] [ \fB-B <broadcast address>\fR ] [ \fB-U <unicast address>\fR ] [ \fB-d <debug level>\fR ] [ \fB-s <smb config file>\fR ] [ \fB-i <NetBIOS scope>\fR ] [ \fB-T\fR ] \fBname\fR
+
.SH "DESCRIPTION"
.PP
-This tool is part of the Sambasuite.
+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
@@ -22,15 +23,15 @@ are done over UDP.
.TP
\fB-M\fR
Searches for a master browser by looking
-up the NetBIOS name \fIname\fR with a
-type of 0x1d. If \fI name\fR is "-" then it does a lookup on the special name
+up the NetBIOS name \fIname\fR with a
+type of 0x1d. If \fI name\fR is "-" then it does a lookup on the special name
__MSBROWSE__.
.TP
\fB-R\fR
Set the recursion desired bit in the packet
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
+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.
.TP
@@ -45,7 +46,7 @@ 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 nmbd(8)
+in addition, if the nmbd(8)
daemon is running on this machine it also binds to this port.
.TP
\fB-A\fR
@@ -60,7 +61,7 @@ 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 \fIsmb.conf (5)\fR file.
+ parameter of the \fIsmb.conf (5)\fR file.
.TP
\fB-U <unicast address>\fR
Do a unicast query to the specified address or
@@ -84,11 +85,11 @@ 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\fRparameter in the \fI smb.conf(5)\fR file.
+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 configuration file, smb.conf(5) This file controls all aspects of
the Samba setup on the machine.
.TP
\fB-i <scope>\fR
@@ -137,8 +138,8 @@ This man page is correct for version 2.2 of
the Samba suite.
.SH "SEE ALSO"
.PP
-\fBnmbd(8)\fR,
-samba(7)
+\fBnmbd(8)\fR
+samba(7) and smb.conf(5)
.SH "AUTHOR"
.PP
The original Samba software and related utilities
@@ -150,5 +151,5 @@ 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
-release by Jeremy Allison. The conversion to DocBook for
+release by Jeremy Allison. The conversion to DocBook for
Samba 2.2 was done by Gerald Carter