Hi, [snips:] Steve Juranich wrote: > I don't think this is a quoting problem. The problem is your hash mark. > Remember that's a comment character, so you'll need to escape it (put a \ in > front). > > Try something like this: > > nmblookup -R $(eval echo "$username\#03") -U $nbns This worked, thank you very much. I thought that this was the first thing that I tried but I guess I must have overlooked it as I tried many variations. > BTW, > > > $ nmblookup -R "jereme#03" -U merlin > > > > And I get back: > > querying jereme on 192.168.0.200 > > name_query failed to find name jereme#03 > > Is this what you expect? I've never used nmblookup, but it looks to me like > your lookup command is failing as well. Whoops, I am never logged onto a windows machine, :) , I should have been more careful in the example I chose to include, sorry for the confusion. This is now working well, I have attached it for posterity. Thanks again, jereme -- +--------------------------------------------------------------+ Jereme Corrado <jereme@restorative-management.com> Network Administrator Restorative Management Corp. gpg: 1024D/9C39E1F0: 8178 3293 4D36 0012 2FAC 8A2B 4767 A3AB 9C39 E1F0
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