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6 .TH "FINDSMB" "1" "26 November 2002" "" ""
8 findsmb \- list info about machines that respond to SMB name queries on a subnet
11 \fBfindsmb\fR [ \fBsubnet broadcast address\fR ]
15 This perl script is part of the Samba suite.
17 \fBfindsmb\fR is a perl script that
18 prints out several pieces of information about machines
19 on a subnet that respond to SMB name query requests.
20 It uses \fB nmblookup(1)\fR to obtain this information.
23 \fBsubnet broadcast address\fR
24 Without this option, \fBfindsmb
25 \fR will probe the subnet of the machine where
26 \fBfindsmb\fR is run. This value is passed
27 to \fBnmblookup\fR as part of the
31 The output of \fBfindsmb\fR lists the following
32 information for all machines that respond to the initial
33 \fBnmblookup\fR for any name: IP address, NetBIOS name,
34 Workgroup name, operating system, and SMB server version.
36 There will be a '+' in front of the workgroup name for
37 machines that are local master browsers for that workgroup. There
38 will be an '*' in front of the workgroup name for
39 machines that are the domain master browser for that workgroup.
40 Machines that are running Windows, Windows 95 or Windows 98 will
41 not show any information about the operating system or server
44 The command must be run on a system without \fBnmbd\fR running.
45 If \fBnmbd\fR is running on the system, you will
46 only get the IP address and the DNS name of the machine. To
47 get proper responses from Windows 95 and Windows 98 machines,
48 the command must be run as root.
50 For example, running \fBfindsmb\fR on a machine
51 without \fBnmbd\fR running would yield output similar
55 IP ADDR NETBIOS NAME WORKGROUP/OS/VERSION
56 ---------------------------------------------------------------------
57 192.168.35.10 MINESET-TEST1 [DMVENGR]
58 192.168.35.55 LINUXBOX *[MYGROUP] [Unix] [Samba 2.0.6]
59 192.168.35.56 HERBNT2 [HERB-NT]
60 192.168.35.63 GANDALF [MVENGR] [Unix] [Samba 2.0.5a for IRIX]
61 192.168.35.65 SAUNA [WORKGROUP] [Unix] [Samba 1.9.18p10]
62 192.168.35.71 FROGSTAR [ENGR] [Unix] [Samba 2.0.0 for IRIX]
63 192.168.35.78 HERBDHCP1 +[HERB]
64 192.168.35.88 SCNT2 +[MVENGR] [Windows NT 4.0] [NT LAN Manager 4.0]
65 192.168.35.93 FROGSTAR-PC [MVENGR] [Windows 5.0] [Windows 2000 LAN Manager]
66 192.168.35.97 HERBNT1 *[HERB-NT] [Windows NT 4.0] [NT LAN Manager 4.0]
71 This man page is correct for version 3.0 of
77 \fR and \fBnmblookup(1)\fR
80 The original Samba software and related utilities
81 were created by Andrew Tridgell. Samba is now developed
82 by the Samba Team as an Open Source project similar
83 to the way the Linux kernel is developed.
85 The original Samba man pages were written by Karl Auer.
86 The man page sources were converted to YODL format (another
87 excellent piece of Open Source software, available at
88 ftp://ftp.icce.rug.nl/pub/unix/ <URL:ftp://ftp.icce.rug.nl/pub/unix/>) and updated for the Samba 2.0
89 release by Jeremy Allison. The conversion to DocBook for
90 Samba 2.2 was done by Gerald Carter