Impossible to obtain the NETBIOS name of a Win95 box using samba 2.0.5..0

[Gerald Carter]

On Fri, 30 Mar 2001 07:43:11 Christophe MAILHE wrote:
> 
> 
> Dear all,
> 
> I loose hope to be able to obtain the NETBIOS name of
> a Win95 box using the following command :
> 
> nmblookup -A ipaddress

Run nmblookup as root and see the -r switch in nmblookup(1)

   -r     Try and bind to UDP port 137 to  send  and  receive
          UDP  datagrams. The reason for this option is a bug
          in Windows 95 where it ignores the source  port  of
          the  requesting packet and only replies to UDP port
          137. Unfortunately, on most UNIX systems root priv-
          ilage  is needed to bind to this port, and in addi-
          tion, if  the  nmbd(8)daemon  is  running  on  this
          machine it also binds to this port.



Cheers, jerry
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