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FINDSMB(1)                                                                                        FINDSMB(1)



NAME
       findsmb - list info about machines that respond to SMB name queries on a subnet

SYNOPSIS
       findsmb [subnet broadcast address]

DESCRIPTION
       This perl script is part of the samba(7) suite.

       findsmb  is  a  perl  script that prints out several pieces of information about machines on a subnet
       that respond to SMB name query requests. It uses nmblookup(1) and smbclient(1) to obtain this  infor-mation. information.
       mation.

OPTIONS
       -r
          Controls  whether  findsmb takes bugs in Windows95 into account when trying to find a Netbios name
          registered of the remote machine. This option is disabled by default because  it  is  specific  to
          Windows 95 and Windows 95 machines only. If set, nmblookup(1) will be called with -B option.

       subnet broadcast address
          Without  this  option,  findsmb will probe the subnet of the machine where findsmb(1) is run. This
          value is passed to nmblookup(1) as part of the -B option.

EXAMPLES
       The output of findsmb lists the following information for all machines that respond  to  the  initial
       nmblookup  for  any  name: IP address, NetBIOS name, Workgroup name, operating system, and SMB server
       version.

       There will be a '+' in front of the workgroup name for machines that are local  master  browsers  for
       that  workgroup. There will be an '*' in front of the workgroup name for machines that are the domain
       master browser for that workgroup. Machines that are running Windows for Workgroups,  Windows  95  or
       Windows 98 will not show any information about the operating system or server version.

       The command with -r option must be run on a system without nmbd(8) running. If nmbd is running on the
       system, you will only get the IP address and the DNS name of the machine.  To  get  proper  responses
       from  Windows  95  and  Windows  98 machines, the command must be run as root and with -r option on a
       machine without nmbd running.

       For example, running findsmb without -r option set would yield output similar to the following


       IP ADDR         NETBIOS NAME   WORKGROUP/OS/VERSION
       ---------------------------------------------------------------------192.168.35.10 --------------------------------------------------------------------192.168.35.10
       192.168.35.10   MINESET-TEST1  [DMVENGR]
       192.168.35.55   LINUXBOX      *[MYGROUP] [Unix] [Samba 2.0.6]
       192.168.35.56   HERBNT2        [HERB-NT]
       192.168.35.63   GANDALF        [MVENGR] [Unix] [Samba 2.0.5a for IRIX]
       192.168.35.65   SAUNA          [WORKGROUP] [Unix] [Samba 1.9.18p10]
       192.168.35.71   FROGSTAR       [ENGR] [Unix] [Samba 2.0.0 for IRIX]
       192.168.35.78   HERBDHCP1     +[HERB]
       192.168.35.88   SCNT2         +[MVENGR] [Windows NT 4.0] [NT LAN Manager 4.0]
       192.168.35.93   FROGSTAR-PC    [MVENGR] [Windows 5.0] [Windows 2000 LAN Manager]
       192.168.35.97   HERBNT1       *[HERB-NT] [Windows NT 4.0] [NT LAN Manager 4.0]


VERSION
       This man page is correct for version 3.0 of the Samba suite.

SEE ALSO
       nmbd(8), smbclient(1), and nmblookup(1)

AUTHOR
       The original Samba software and related utilities were created  by  Andrew  Tridgell.  Samba  is  now
       developed  by  the Samba Team as an Open Source project similar to the way the Linux kernel is devel-oped. developed.
       oped.

       The original Samba man pages were written by Karl Auer. The man page sources were converted  to  YODL
       format     (another     excellent     piece     of     Open    Source    software,    available    at
       ftp://ftp.icce.rug.nl/pub/unix/) and updated for the Samba 2.0 release by Jeremy Allison. The conver-sion conversion
       sion  to DocBook for Samba 2.2 was done by Gerald Carter. The conversion to DocBook XML 4.2 for Samba
       3.0 was done by Alexander Bokovoy.




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