nmblookup for names on samba server don't work
Jeremy Allison
jallison at cthulhu.engr.sgi.com
Fri Sep 18 22:57:30 GMT 1998
Richard Sharpe wrote:
>
> Hi,
>
> we are having a problem at NCI.
>
> PCs are registered in WINS.dat, I can see themas, say:
>
> RJSPC1 <00>
>
> but if I do an nmblookup rjspc1 I get back a status saying that the name
> could not be found. Can anyone say why that is the case?
>
By default nmblookup is looking for a <0x20> name.
Change the type it's looking for by doing :
nmblookup rjspc1#0
And it should find it.
Cheers,
Jeremy.
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