Re: get ip from samba

[Marcin <lfe@ghnet.pl>]

Hello,

> C:\Documents and Settings\SJr>ping GAUSS
> Pinging GAUSS [192.168.0.30] with 32 bytes of data:
> Like so...

BTW.
No this is not debian OS :]
Debian-Security <debian-security@lists.debian.org>

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

of course on samba master domain.
samba is changing this file all the time.
the same as browser.dat and others.

I dont know how smblookup works because I never using it - but always
direct access to lock files.


Of course, I agree with:
> >Is there a way to get a machine's ip address, if I only know it's
> >netbios name?
> Basically not. NetBIOS does not deal with ip addresses, its an other
> protocol stack than tcp/ip!
> Nowadays used "NetBIOS over IP" is the NetBIOS implementaion wrapped in
> ip. Therefore use samba's nmblookup.


-- 
Cheers,
Marcin.