nmblookup (1)

Samba

23 Oct 1998


NAME

nmblookup - NetBIOS over TCP/IP client used to lookup NetBIOS names


SYNOPSIS


nmblookup [-M] [-R] [-S] [-r] [-A] [-h] [-B broadcast address] [-U unicast address] [-d debuglevel] [-s smb config file] [-i NetBIOS scope] name


DESCRIPTION


This program is part of the Samba suite.


nmblookup is used to query NetBIOS names and map them to IP addresses in a network using NetBIOS over TCP/IP queries. The options allow the name queries to be directed at a particular IP broadcast area or to a particular machine. All queries are done over UDP.


OPTIONS



EXAMPLES


nmblookup can be used to query a WINS server (in the same way nslookup is used to query DNS servers). To query a WINS server, nmblookup must be called like this:


nmblookup -U server -R 'name'


For example, running :


nmblookup -U samba.anu.edu.au -R IRIX#1B'


would query the WINS server samba.anu.edu.au for the domain master browser (1B name type) for the IRIX workgroup.


VERSION


This man page is correct for version 2.0 of the Samba suite.


SEE ALSO


samba (7), nmbd (8), smb.conf (5)


AUTHOR


The original Samba software and related utilities were created by Andrew Tridgell samba-bugs@samba.anu.edu.au. Samba is now developed by the Samba Team as an Open Source project similar to the way the Linux kernel is developed.


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/) and updated for the Samba2.0 release by Jeremy Allison. samba-bugs@samba.anu.edu.au.


See samba (7) to find out how to get a full list of contributors and details on how to submit bug reports, comments etc.