[Samba] Keeping a list of NetBIOS names on a network?

[Herb Lewis]

winbindd has the capability of doing hostname resolution for
NetBIOS names and can then be added to nsswitch.conf. Check out
the man pages.

Matthew Dempsky wrote:
> Thanks for the findsmb and wins.dat tips! :)
> 
> On Mon, Aug 17, 2009 at 11:03 AM, Gerald Carter<jerry at plainjoe.org> wrote:
>> Another alternative would be to look at integrating your
>> DNS server with nmbd, perhaps using the wins.dat (or whatever
>> the WINS db is backed up to now).
> 
> Running nmbd is an option, but according to the man pages, it only
> maintains wins.dat and/or browse.dat if it's the WINS server and/or
> browse master (respectively), of which there can only be one of either
> on a network.  If possible, I'd like to avoid requiring network
> administrators to alter their network configuration.