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  18 >nmblookup</A
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  20 ><DIV
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  22 ><A
  23 NAME="AEN5"
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  25 ><H2
  26 >Name</H2
  27 >nmblookup&nbsp;--&nbsp;NetBIOS over TCP/IP client used to lookup NetBIOS
  28         names</DIV
  29 ><DIV
  30 CLASS="REFSYNOPSISDIV"
  31 ><A
  32 NAME="AEN8"
  33 ></A
  34 ><H2
  35 >Synopsis</H2
  36 ><P
  37 ><B
  38 CLASS="COMMAND"
  39 >nmblookup</B
  40 >  [-f] [-M] [-R] [-S] [-r] [-A] [-h] [-B &#60;broadcast address&#62;] [-U &#60;unicast address&#62;] [-d &#60;debug level&#62;] [-s &#60;smb config file&#62;] [-i &#60;NetBIOS scope&#62;] [-T] {name}</P
  41 ></DIV
  42 ><DIV
  43 CLASS="REFSECT1"
  44 ><A
  45 NAME="AEN25"
  46 ></A
  47 ><H2
  48 >DESCRIPTION</H2
  49 ><P
  50 >This tool is part of the <A
  51 HREF="samba.7.html"
  52 TARGET="_top"
  53 >       Samba</A
  54 > suite.</P
  55 ><P
  56 ><B
  57 CLASS="COMMAND"
  58 >nmblookup</B
  59 > is used to query NetBIOS names
  60         and map them to IP addresses in a network using NetBIOS over TCP/IP
  61         queries. The options allow the name queries to be directed at a
  62         particular IP broadcast area or to a particular machine. All queries
  63         are done over UDP.</P
  64 ></DIV
  65 ><DIV
  66 CLASS="REFSECT1"
  67 ><A
  68 NAME="AEN31"
  69 ></A
  70 ><H2
  71 >OPTIONS</H2
  72 ><P
  73 ></P
  74 ><DIV
  75 CLASS="VARIABLELIST"
  76 ><DL
  77 ><DT
  78 >-f</DT
  79 ><DD
  80 ><P
  81 >Causes nmblookup to print out the flags
  82                 in the NMB packet headers. These flags will print out as
  83                 strings like Authoritative, Recursion_Desired, Recursion_available, etc.
  84                 </P
  85 ></DD
  86 ><DT
  87 >-M</DT
  88 ><DD
  89 ><P
  90 >Searches for a master browser by looking
  91                 up the  NetBIOS name <TT
  92 CLASS="REPLACEABLE"
  93 ><I
  94 >name</I
  95 ></TT
  96 > with a
  97                 type of <TT
  98 CLASS="CONSTANT"
  99 >0x1d</TT
 100 >. If <TT
 101 CLASS="REPLACEABLE"
 102 ><I
 103 >               name</I
 104 ></TT
 105 > is "-" then it does a lookup on the special name
 106                 <TT
 107 CLASS="CONSTANT"
 108 >__MSBROWSE__</TT
 109 >.</P
 110 ></DD
 111 ><DT
 112 >-R</DT
 113 ><DD
 114 ><P
 115 >Set the recursion desired bit in the packet
 116                 to do a recursive lookup. This is used when sending a name
 117                 query to a machine running a WINS server and the user wishes
 118                 to query the names in the WINS server.  If this bit is unset
 119                 the normal (broadcast responding) NetBIOS processing code
 120                 on a machine is used instead. See rfc1001, rfc1002 for details.
 121                 </P
 122 ></DD
 123 ><DT
 124 >-S</DT
 125 ><DD
 126 ><P
 127 >Once the name query has returned an IP
 128                 address then do a node status query as well. A node status
 129                 query returns the NetBIOS names registered by a host.
 130                 </P
 131 ></DD
 132 ><DT
 133 >-r</DT
 134 ><DD
 135 ><P
 136 >Try and bind to UDP port 137 to send and receive UDP
 137                 datagrams. The reason for this option is a bug in Windows 95
 138                 where it ignores the source port of the requesting packet
 139                 and only replies to UDP port 137. Unfortunately, on most UNIX
 140                 systems root privilege is needed to bind to this port, and
 141                 in addition, if the <A
 142 HREF="nmbd.8.html"
 143 TARGET="_top"
 144 >nmbd(8)</A
 145 >
 146                 daemon is running on this machine it also binds to this port.
 147                 </P
 148 ></DD
 149 ><DT
 150 >-A</DT
 151 ><DD
 152 ><P
 153 >Interpret <TT
 154 CLASS="REPLACEABLE"
 155 ><I
 156 >name</I
 157 ></TT
 158 > as
 159                 an IP Address and do a node status query on this address.</P
 160 ></DD
 161 ><DT
 162 >-h</DT
 163 ><DD
 164 ><P
 165 >Print a help (usage) message.</P
 166 ></DD
 167 ><DT
 168 >-B &#60;broadcast address&#62;</DT
 169 ><DD
 170 ><P
 171 >Send the query to the given broadcast address. Without
 172                 this option the default behavior of nmblookup is to send the
 173                 query to the broadcast address of the network interfaces as
 174                 either auto-detected or defined in the <A
 175 HREF="smb.conf.5.html#INTERFACES"
 176 TARGET="_top"
 177 ><TT
 178 CLASS="PARAMETER"
 179 ><I
 180 >interfaces</I
 181 ></TT
 182 >
 183                 </A
 184 > parameter of the  <TT
 185 CLASS="FILENAME"
 186 >smb.conf (5)</TT
 187 > file.
 188                 </P
 189 ></DD
 190 ><DT
 191 >-U &#60;unicast address&#62;</DT
 192 ><DD
 193 ><P
 194 >Do a unicast query to the specified address or
 195                 host <TT
 196 CLASS="REPLACEABLE"
 197 ><I
 198 >unicast address</I
 199 ></TT
 200 >. This option
 201                 (along with the <TT
 202 CLASS="PARAMETER"
 203 ><I
 204 >-R</I
 205 ></TT
 206 > option) is needed to
 207                 query a WINS server.</P
 208 ></DD
 209 ><DT
 210 >-d &#60;debuglevel&#62;</DT
 211 ><DD
 212 ><P
 213 >debuglevel is an integer from 0 to 10.</P
 214 ><P
 215 >The default value if this parameter is not specified
 216                 is zero.</P
 217 ><P
 218 >The higher this value, the more detail will be logged
 219                 about the activities of <B
 220 CLASS="COMMAND"
 221 >nmblookup</B
 222 >. At level
 223                 0, only critical errors and serious warnings will be logged.</P
 224 ><P
 225 >Levels above 1 will generate considerable amounts of
 226                 log data, and should only be used when investigating a problem.
 227                 Levels above 3 are designed for use only by developers and
 228                 generate HUGE amounts of data, most of which is extremely cryptic.</P
 229 ><P
 230 >Note that specifying this parameter here will override
 231                 the <A
 232 HREF="smb.conf.5.html#LOGLEVEL"
 233 TARGET="_top"
 234 ><TT
 235 CLASS="PARAMETER"
 236 ><I
 237 >               log level</I
 238 ></TT
 239 ></A
 240 > parameter in the <TT
 241 CLASS="FILENAME"
 242 >               smb.conf(5)</TT
 243 > file.</P
 244 ></DD
 245 ><DT
 246 >-s &#60;smb.conf&#62;</DT
 247 ><DD
 248 ><P
 249 >This parameter specifies the pathname to
 250                 the Samba configuration file, <A
 251 HREF="smb.conf.5.html"
 252 TARGET="_top"
 253 >               smb.conf(5)</A
 254 >.  This file controls all aspects of
 255                 the Samba setup on the machine.</P
 256 ></DD
 257 ><DT
 258 >-i &#60;scope&#62;</DT
 259 ><DD
 260 ><P
 261 >This specifies a NetBIOS scope that
 262                 <B
 263 CLASS="COMMAND"
 264 >nmblookup</B
 265 > will use to communicate with when
 266                 generating NetBIOS names. For details on the use of NetBIOS
 267                 scopes, see rfc1001.txt and rfc1002.txt. NetBIOS scopes are
 268                 <EM
 269 >very</EM
 270 > rarely used, only set this parameter
 271                 if you are the system administrator in charge of all the
 272                 NetBIOS systems you communicate with.</P
 273 ></DD
 274 ><DT
 275 >-T</DT
 276 ><DD
 277 ><P
 278 >This causes any IP addresses found in the
 279                 lookup to be looked up via a reverse DNS lookup into a
 280                 DNS name, and printed out before each</P
 281 ><P
 282 ><EM
 283 >IP address .... NetBIOS name</EM
 284 ></P
 285 ><P
 286 > pair that is the normal output.</P
 287 ></DD
 288 ><DT
 289 >name</DT
 290 ><DD
 291 ><P
 292 >This is the NetBIOS name being queried. Depending
 293                 upon the previous options this may be a NetBIOS name or IP address.
 294                 If a NetBIOS name then the different name types may be specified
 295                 by appending '#&#60;type&#62;' to the name. This name may also be
 296                 '*', which will return all registered names within a broadcast
 297                 area.</P
 298 ></DD
 299 ></DL
 300 ></DIV
 301 ></DIV
 302 ><DIV
 303 CLASS="REFSECT1"
 304 ><A
 305 NAME="AEN115"
 306 ></A
 307 ><H2
 308 >EXAMPLES</H2
 309 ><P
 310 ><B
 311 CLASS="COMMAND"
 312 >nmblookup</B
 313 > can be used to query
 314                 a WINS server (in the same way <B
 315 CLASS="COMMAND"
 316 >nslookup</B
 317 > is
 318                 used to query DNS servers). To query a WINS server,
 319                 <B
 320 CLASS="COMMAND"
 321 >nmblookup</B
 322 > must be called like this:</P
 323 ><P
 324 ><B
 325 CLASS="COMMAND"
 326 >nmblookup -U server -R 'name'</B
 327 ></P
 328 ><P
 329 >For example, running :</P
 330 ><P
 331 ><B
 332 CLASS="COMMAND"
 333 >nmblookup -U samba.org -R 'IRIX#1B'</B
 334 ></P
 335 ><P
 336 >would query the WINS server samba.org for the domain
 337                 master browser (1B name type) for the IRIX workgroup.</P
 338 ></DIV
 339 ><DIV
 340 CLASS="REFSECT1"
 341 ><A
 342 NAME="AEN127"
 343 ></A
 344 ><H2
 345 >VERSION</H2
 346 ><P
 347 >This man page is correct for version 2.2 of
 348         the Samba suite.</P
 349 ></DIV
 350 ><DIV
 351 CLASS="REFSECT1"
 352 ><A
 353 NAME="AEN130"
 354 ></A
 355 ><H2
 356 >SEE ALSO</H2
 357 ><P
 358 ><A
 359 HREF="nmbd.8.html"
 360 TARGET="_top"
 361 ><B
 362 CLASS="COMMAND"
 363 >nmbd(8)</B
 364 ></A
 365 >,
 366         <A
 367 HREF="samba.7.html"
 368 TARGET="_top"
 369 >samba(7)</A
 370 >, and  <A
 371 HREF="smb.conf.5.html"
 372 TARGET="_top"
 373 >smb.conf(5)</A
 374 >
 375         </P
 376 ></DIV
 377 ><DIV
 378 CLASS="REFSECT1"
 379 ><A
 380 NAME="AEN137"
 381 ></A
 382 ><H2
 383 >AUTHOR</H2
 384 ><P
 385 >The original Samba software and related utilities
 386         were created by Andrew Tridgell. Samba is now developed
 387         by the Samba Team as an Open Source project similar
 388         to the way the Linux kernel is developed.</P
 389 ><P
 390 >The original Samba man pages were written by Karl Auer.
 391         The man page sources were converted to YODL format (another
 392         excellent piece of Open Source software, available at
 393         <A
 394 HREF="ftp://ftp.icce.rug.nl/pub/unix/"
 395 TARGET="_top"
 396 >       ftp://ftp.icce.rug.nl/pub/unix/</A
 397 >) and updated for the Samba 2.0
 398         release by Jeremy Allison.  The conversion to DocBook for
 399         Samba 2.2 was done by Gerald Carter</P
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