RE: get ip from samba

["Steve Ramage" <sjr@sjrx.net>]

Um hmmmm I'm assuming you mean from a remote host, if its running
windows and name resolution is set up right, then you can just ping the
host name.

C:\Documents and Settings\SJr>ping GAUSS

Pinging GAUSS [192.168.0.30] with 32 bytes of data:

Like so...

Steve

-----Original Message-----
From: Marcin [mailto:lfe@ghnet.pl] 
Sent: April 8, 2004 8:31 AM
To: Debian-Security
Subject: Re: get ip from samba


Hello,

> Is there a way to get a machine's ip address, if I only know it's 
> netbios name?

see in wins.dat file.
default:
/var/lock/samba/wins.dat

for example:
"ADTK#00" 1081647851 192.168.14.22 64R

there are NetBios Names, IPs, smb flags etc...

this is normal text file.

-- 
Marcin.
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        Cheers




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