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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 >  [-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="AEN24"
  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="AEN30"
  69 ></A
  70 ><H2
  71 >OPTIONS</H2
  72 ><P
  73 ></P
  74 ><DIV
  75 CLASS="VARIABLELIST"
  76 ><DL
  77 ><DT
  78 >-M</DT
  79 ><DD
  80 ><P
  81 >Searches for a master browser by looking
  82                 up the  NetBIOS name <TT
  83 CLASS="REPLACEABLE"
  84 ><I
  85 >name</I
  86 ></TT
  87 > with a
  88                 type of <TT
  89 CLASS="CONSTANT"
  90 >0x1d</TT
  91 >. If <TT
  92 CLASS="REPLACEABLE"
  93 ><I
  94 >               name</I
  95 ></TT
  96 > is "-" then it does a lookup on the special name
  97                 <TT
  98 CLASS="CONSTANT"
  99 >__MSBROWSE__</TT
 100 >.</P
 101 ></DD
 102 ><DT
 103 >-R</DT
 104 ><DD
 105 ><P
 106 >Set the recursion desired bit in the packet
 107                 to do a recursive lookup. This is used when sending a name
 108                 query to a machine running a WINS server and the user wishes
 109                 to query the names in the WINS server.  If this bit is unset
 110                 the normal (broadcast responding) NetBIOS processing code
 111                 on a machine is used instead. See rfc1001, rfc1002 for details.
 112                 </P
 113 ></DD
 114 ><DT
 115 >-S</DT
 116 ><DD
 117 ><P
 118 >Once the name query has returned an IP
 119                 address then do a node status query as well. A node status
 120                 query returns the NetBIOS names registered by a host.
 121                 </P
 122 ></DD
 123 ><DT
 124 >-r</DT
 125 ><DD
 126 ><P
 127 >Try and bind to UDP port 137 to send and receive UDP
 128                 datagrams. The reason for this option is a bug in Windows 95
 129                 where it ignores the source port of the requesting packet
 130                 and only replies to UDP port 137. Unfortunately, on most UNIX
 131                 systems root privilage is needed to bind to this port, and
 132                 in addition, if the <A
 133 HREF="nmbd.8.html"
 134 TARGET="_top"
 135 >nmbd(8)</A
 136 >
 137                 daemon is running on this machine it also binds to this port.
 138                 </P
 139 ></DD
 140 ><DT
 141 >-A</DT
 142 ><DD
 143 ><P
 144 >Interpret <TT
 145 CLASS="REPLACEABLE"
 146 ><I
 147 >name</I
 148 ></TT
 149 > as
 150                 an IP Address and do a node status query on this address.</P
 151 ></DD
 152 ><DT
 153 >-h</DT
 154 ><DD
 155 ><P
 156 >Print a help (usage) message.</P
 157 ></DD
 158 ><DT
 159 >-B &#60;broadcast address&#62;</DT
 160 ><DD
 161 ><P
 162 >Send the query to the given broadcast address. Without
 163                 this option the default behavior of nmblookup is to send the
 164                 query to the broadcast address of the network interfaces as
 165                 either auto-detected or defined in the <A
 166 HREF="smb.conf.5.html#INTERFACES"
 167 TARGET="_top"
 168 ><TT
 169 CLASS="PARAMETER"
 170 ><I
 171 >interfaces</I
 172 ></TT
 173 >
 174                 </A
 175 > parameter of the  <TT
 176 CLASS="FILENAME"
 177 >smb.conf (5)</TT
 178 > file.
 179                 </P
 180 ></DD
 181 ><DT
 182 >-U &#60;unicast address&#62;</DT
 183 ><DD
 184 ><P
 185 >Do a unicast query to the specified address or
 186                 host <TT
 187 CLASS="REPLACEABLE"
 188 ><I
 189 >unicast address</I
 190 ></TT
 191 >. This option
 192                 (along with the <TT
 193 CLASS="PARAMETER"
 194 ><I
 195 >-R</I
 196 ></TT
 197 > option) is needed to
 198                 query a WINS server.</P
 199 ></DD
 200 ><DT
 201 >-d &#60;debuglevel&#62;</DT
 202 ><DD
 203 ><P
 204 >debuglevel is an integer from 0 to 10.</P
 205 ><P
 206 >The default value if this parameter is not specified
 207                 is zero.</P
 208 ><P
 209 >The higher this value, the more detail will be logged
 210                 about the activities of <B
 211 CLASS="COMMAND"
 212 >nmblookup</B
 213 >. At level
 214                 0, only critical errors and serious warnings will be logged.</P
 215 ><P
 216 >Levels above 1 will generate considerable amounts of
 217                 log data, and should only be used when investigating a problem.
 218                 Levels above 3 are designed for use only by developers and
 219                 generate HUGE amounts of data, most of which is extremely cryptic.</P
 220 ><P
 221 >Note that specifying this parameter here will override
 222                 the <A
 223 HREF="smb.conf.5.html#LOGLEVEL"
 224 TARGET="_top"
 225 ><TT
 226 CLASS="PARAMETER"
 227 ><I
 228 >               log level</I
 229 ></TT
 230 ></A
 231 > parameter in the <TT
 232 CLASS="FILENAME"
 233 >               smb.conf(5)</TT
 234 > file.</P
 235 ></DD
 236 ><DT
 237 >-s &#60;smb.conf&#62;</DT
 238 ><DD
 239 ><P
 240 >This parameter specifies the pathname to
 241                 the Samba configuration file, <A
 242 HREF="smb.conf.5.html"
 243 TARGET="_top"
 244 >               smb.conf(5)</A
 245 >.  This file controls all aspects of
 246                 the Samba setup on the machine.</P
 247 ></DD
 248 ><DT
 249 >-i &#60;scope&#62;</DT
 250 ><DD
 251 ><P
 252 >This specifies a NetBIOS scope that
 253                 <B
 254 CLASS="COMMAND"
 255 >nmblookup</B
 256 > will use to communicate with when
 257                 generating NetBIOS names. For details on the use of NetBIOS
 258                 scopes, see rfc1001.txt and rfc1002.txt. NetBIOS scopes are
 259                 <EM
 260 >very</EM
 261 > rarely used, only set this parameter
 262                 if you are the system administrator in charge of all the
 263                 NetBIOS systems you communicate with.</P
 264 ></DD
 265 ><DT
 266 >-T</DT
 267 ><DD
 268 ><P
 269 >This causes any IP addresses found in the
 270                 lookup to be looked up via a reverse DNS lookup into a
 271                 DNS name, and printed out before each</P
 272 ><P
 273 ><EM
 274 >IP address .... NetBIOS name</EM
 275 ></P
 276 ><P
 277 > pair that is the normal output.</P
 278 ></DD
 279 ><DT
 280 >name</DT
 281 ><DD
 282 ><P
 283 >This is the NetBIOS name being queried. Depending
 284                 upon the previous options this may be a NetBIOS name or IP address.
 285                 If a NetBIOS name then the different name types may be specified
 286                 by appending '#&#60;type&#62;' to the name. This name may also be
 287                 '*', which will return all registered names within a broadcast
 288                 area.</P
 289 ></DD
 290 ></DL
 291 ></DIV
 292 ></DIV
 293 ><DIV
 294 CLASS="REFSECT1"
 295 ><A
 296 NAME="AEN110"
 297 ></A
 298 ><H2
 299 >EXAMPLES</H2
 300 ><P
 301 ><B
 302 CLASS="COMMAND"
 303 >nmblookup</B
 304 > can be used to query
 305                 a WINS server (in the same way <B
 306 CLASS="COMMAND"
 307 >nslookup</B
 308 > is
 309                 used to query DNS servers). To query a WINS server,
 310                 <B
 311 CLASS="COMMAND"
 312 >nmblookup</B
 313 > must be called like this:</P
 314 ><P
 315 ><B
 316 CLASS="COMMAND"
 317 >nmblookup -U server -R 'name'</B
 318 ></P
 319 ><P
 320 >For example, running :</P
 321 ><P
 322 ><B
 323 CLASS="COMMAND"
 324 >nmblookup -U samba.org -R 'IRIX#1B'</B
 325 ></P
 326 ><P
 327 >would query the WINS server samba.org for the domain
 328                 master browser (1B name type) for the IRIX workgroup.</P
 329 ></DIV
 330 ><DIV
 331 CLASS="REFSECT1"
 332 ><A
 333 NAME="AEN122"
 334 ></A
 335 ><H2
 336 >VERSION</H2
 337 ><P
 338 >This man page is correct for version 2.2 of
 339         the Samba suite.</P
 340 ></DIV
 341 ><DIV
 342 CLASS="REFSECT1"
 343 ><A
 344 NAME="AEN125"
 345 ></A
 346 ><H2
 347 >SEE ALSO</H2
 348 ><P
 349 ><A
 350 HREF="nmbd.8.html"
 351 TARGET="_top"
 352 ><B
 353 CLASS="COMMAND"
 354 >nmbd(8)</B
 355 ></A
 356 >,
 357         <A
 358 HREF="samba.7.html"
 359 TARGET="_top"
 360 >samba(7)</A
 361 >, and  <A
 362 HREF="smb.conf.5.html"
 363 TARGET="_top"
 364 >smb.conf(5)</A
 365 >
 366         </P
 367 ></DIV
 368 ><DIV
 369 CLASS="REFSECT1"
 370 ><A
 371 NAME="AEN132"
 372 ></A
 373 ><H2
 374 >AUTHOR</H2
 375 ><P
 376 >The original Samba software and related utilities
 377         were created by Andrew Tridgell. Samba is now developed
 378         by the Samba Team as an Open Source project similar
 379         to the way the Linux kernel is developed.</P
 380 ><P
 381 >The original Samba man pages were written by Karl Auer.
 382         The man page sources were converted to YODL format (another
 383         excellent piece of Open Source software, available at
 384         <A
 385 HREF="ftp://ftp.icce.rug.nl/pub/unix/"
 386 TARGET="_top"
 387 >       ftp://ftp.icce.rug.nl/pub/unix/</A
 388 >) and updated for the Samba 2.0
 389         release by Jeremy Allison.  The conversion to DocBook for
 390         Samba 2.2 was done by Gerald Carter</P
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