Re: Bug#94735: ITP: nbtscan -- NetBIOS Name Network Scanner
Ryszard,
On Sun, 22 Apr 2001, Ryszard Lach wrote:
> On Sat, Apr 21, 2001 at 03:10:12PM -0500, Steve Langasek wrote:
> > Hello,
> > On Sat, 21 Apr 2001, Ryszard Lach wrote:
> > > Package: wnpp
> > > Severity: wishlist
> > > NBTscan is a program for scanning IP networks for NetBIOS name information. It
> > > sends NetBIOS status query to each address in supplied range and lists received
> > > information in human readable form. For each responded host it lists IP address,
> > > NetBIOS computer name, logged-in user name and MAC address
> > What are the advantages of using this program instead of 'nmblookup' from the
> > samba-common package?
> They say (and write in manual) that nmblookup can find any host names searching
> with given broadcast, but I did not manage to force it to receive an output like
> this:
> $ nbtscan 192.168.1.0/24
> IP address NetBIOS Name Server User MAC address
> ------------------------------------------------------------------------------
> 192.168.1.2 PROD <server> PROD 00-48-54-53-09-ca
> 192.168.1.8 SIACO <server> SIACO 00-00-00-00-00-00
> 192.168.1.20 RALF <server> RALF 00-00-00-00-00-00
> 192.168.1.44 GUCIO <server> GUCIO 00-00-00-00-00-00
> 192.168.1.97 CYTOP <server> CYTOP 00-00-00-00-00-00
[snip]
> I think this tool is very useful. If you don't - I won't waste my time for
> packaging it.
As long as someone finds this tool useful, I would never tell you that you
shouldn't package it. I was just curious why someone had written another tool
for looking up netbios names. I think it would be ideal if nmblookup was good
enough that people didn't have to write other C programs to do the same thing.
:)
Steve Langasek
postmodern programmer
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