How can you tell if a node is a WINS server ...

[Christopher R. Hertel]

Look at the RA bit in the returned packet.  A WINS server should set
this bit.  A non-WINS should leave it clear.

I am pretty sure this works with Windows boxes.  If so, we should be
sure we do this correctly in Samba.  :)

See my notes in section 3.4.3.2.1 of
http://www.ubiqx.org/cifs/NetBIOS.html

Chris -)-----

Richard Sharpe wrote:
> 
> Hi,
> 
> I am looking for a way from within a script to tell if a node is a
> WINS server.
> 
> Doing something like 'nmblookup -A <ip.address>' is ambiguous, and
> even asking the node to translate its own name is ambiguous.
> 
> It seems like you need to ask it to translate a name that a non-WINS
> server would not normally have?
> 
> Regards
> -----
> Richard Sharpe, rsharpe at ns.aus.com, rsharpe at samba.org,
> sharpe at ethereal.com

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Christopher R. Hertel -)-----                   University of Minnesota
crh at nts.umn.edu              Networking and Telecommunications Services