SOLVED: OT: How to get IP address via Samba name?

[Kent West <westk@acu.edu>]

Kent West wrote:

> However, apparently the most recent smbclient in Sid no longer shows 
> the IP address. How can I determine the IP address of "somePC" 
> ("smbclient -L" still finds the PC; it just doesn't report the IP 
> address anymore).
Todd Pytel wrote:

> Did you try plain old "nmblookup PCname" ? That's the standard usage, no
> options.


Kent West wrote:

> westk[@westek]:/home/westk> nmblookup alum03
> querying alum03 on xxx.yyy.zzz.255
> name_query failed to find name alum03 


I had to query the DNS server directly:
westk[@garciajo]:/home/westk> nmblookup -U <dns server address> -R "alum03"
querying alum03 on <dns server address>
xxx.yyy.zzz.3 alum03<00>

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Kent