nmblookup/manpage

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

SYNOPSIS
nmblookup [-M] [-R] [-S] [-r] [-A] [-h] [-B ] [-U ] [-d ] [-s ] [-i ] [-T] [-f] {name}

DESCRIPTION
This tool is part of the (7) 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.

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.org -R ’IRIX#1B’

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

VERSION
This man page is correct for version 3.0 of the Samba suite.

AUTHOR
The original Samba software and related utilities were created by Andrew Tridgell. 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 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.

Edit Notes

 * 2006-09-09 Transcribed from Ubuntu Dapper manpages