Samba's response to a node status query includes a MAC Addr of0:0:0:0:0:0

Gerald (Jerry) Carter jerry at samba.org
Tue Apr 20 23:25:48 GMT 2004


Christopher R. Hertel wrote:

> I think we could modify nmblookup so that it could 
 > *optionally* report the MAC address it receives.  We'd need
 > to add a switch to do this.  As for Samba (nmbd) reporting it's
 > interface MAC address... We've never done it so I don't really
 > think it's necessary.

I was referring to smbd reporting its MAC address.  I don't
care what the client does as much.




cheers, jerry
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