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

[Richard Sharpe]

On Thu, 9 May 2002, Richard Sharpe wrote:

BTW, Chris, that NetBIOS web site is a great resource!

> On Wed, 8 May 2002, Christopher R. Hertel wrote:
> 
> > Look at the RA bit in the returned packet.  A WINS server should set
> > this bit.  A non-WINS should leave it clear.
> 
> OK, so what I want is for nmblookup to decode this bit in some way?
>  
> > 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
> > 
> > 
> 
> 

-- 
Regards
-----
Richard Sharpe, rsharpe at ns.aus.com, rsharpe at samba.org, 
sharpe at ethereal.com