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<h1>findsmb (1)</h1>
<h2>Samba</h2>
<h2>2 May 2000</h2>
<p><br><a name="NAME"></a>
<h2>NAME</h2>
findsmb - list info about machines that respond to SMB name queries on a subnet
<p><br><a name="SYNOPSIS"></a>
<h2>SYNOPSIS</h2>
<p><br><strong>findsmb</strong> [<a href="findsmb.1.html#subnetbroadcastaddress">subnet broadcast address</a>]
<p><br><a name="DESCRIPTION"></a>
<h2>DESCRIPTION</h2>
<p><br>This perl script is part of the <strong>Samba</strong> suite.
<p><br><strong>findsmb</strong> is a perl script that prints out several pieces
of information about machines on a subnet that respond to SMB
name query requests.
It uses <a href="nmblookup.1.html"><strong>nmblookup</strong></a> and
<a href="smbclient.1.html"><strong>smbclient</strong></a> to obtain this information.
<p><br><a name="OPTIONS"></a>
<h2>OPTIONS</h2>
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<p><br><a name="subnetbroadcastaddress"></a>
<li><strong><strong>subnet broadcast address</strong></strong> Without this option, <strong>findsmb</strong>
will probe the subnet of the machine where <strong>findsmb</strong> is run.
This value is passed to <strong>nmblookup</strong> as part of the <strong>-B</strong>
option
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<p><br><a name="EXAMPLES"></a>
<h2>EXAMPLES</h2>
<p><br>The output of <strong>findsmb</strong> lists the following information for all
machines that respond to the initial <strong>nmblookup</strong> for any name:
IP address, NetBIOS name, Workgroup name, operating system, and
SMB server version.
<p><br>There will be a "+" in front of the workgroup name for machines that are
local master browsers for that workgroup. There will be an "*" in front
of the workgroup name for machines that are the domain master browser for
that workgroup. Machines that are running Windows, Windows 95 or Windows 98
will not show any information about the operating system or server version.
<p><br>The command must be run on a system without
<strong>nmbd</strong> running. If <strong>nmbd</strong> 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.
<p><br>For example running:
<p><br><code>findsmb</code>
<p><br>on a machine without <strong>nmbd</strong> running would yield output similar
to the following
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IP ADDR NETBIOS NAME WORKGROUP/OS/VERSION
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192.168.35.10 MINESET-TEST1 [DMVENGR]
192.168.35.55 LINUXBOX *[MYGROUP] [Unix] [Samba 2.0.6]
192.168.35.56 HERBNT2 [HERB-NT]
192.168.35.63 GANDALF [MVENGR] [Unix] [Samba 2.0.5a for IRIX]
192.168.35.65 SAUNA [WORKGROUP] [Unix] [Samba 1.9.18p10]
192.168.35.71 FROGSTAR [ENGR] [Unix] [Samba 2.0.0 for IRIX]
192.168.35.78 HERBDHCP1 +[HERB]
192.168.35.88 SCNT2 +[MVENGR] [Windows NT 4.0] [NT LAN Manager 4.0]
192.168.35.93 FROGSTAR-PC [MVENGR] [Windows 5.0] [Windows 2000 LAN Manager]
192.168.35.97 HERBNT1 *[HERB-NT] [Windows NT 4.0] [NT LAN Manager 4.0]
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<p><br><a name="VERSION"></a>
<h2>VERSION</h2>
<p><br>This man page is correct for version 2.0 of the Samba suite.
<p><br><a name="SEEALSO"></a>
<h2>SEE ALSO</h2>
<p><br><a href="nmblookup.1.html"><strong>nmblookup (1)</strong></a>, <a href="smbclient.1.html"><strong>smbclient (1)</strong></a>
<p><br><a name="AUTHOR"></a>
<h2>AUTHOR</h2>
<p><br>This perl script was developed by Herb Lewis of SGI.
<p><br>The original Samba software and related utilities were created by
Andrew Tridgell <a href="mailto:samba@samba.org"><em>samba@samba.org</em></a>. Samba is now developed
by the Samba Team as an Open Source project similar to the way the
Linux kernel is developed.
<p><br>See <a href="samba.7.html"><strong>samba (7)</strong></a> to find out how to get a full
list of contributors and details on how to submit bug reports,
comments etc.
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