Detecting Windows OS Version through Samba

[Jelmer Vernooij]

On Wed, Mar 05, 2003 at 06:57:04PM +0100, Simo Sorce wrote about 'Re: Detecting Windows OS Version through Samba':
> On Wed, 2003-03-05 at 18:52, Agis Andreou wrote:
> > Hello everyone,

> > I have a samba server and several wannabe clients on a different subnet.
> > Is there a way to determine their windows os version through the network,
> > (without actually asking their owners or trying to physicaly locate the 
> > hosts)?

> > if i am not mistaken the info i'm looking for is exposed at least during 
> > the browser election proccess,
> > but that is not enough since i am on a different subnet. NetBIOS is open 
> > to those machines.

> > Is there a cmd line utility or source code for solaris/bsd/linux or 
> > windows that can be used for that purpose?

You can also try to use the queso tool.

Jelmer

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