[Samba] WINS querying (Advanced)

[Herb Lewis]

"WEBSTER, Greg" wrote:
> 
> > -----Original Message-----
> > From: Jim Watt [mailto:wattjg at appliedbiosystems.com]
> > Subject: Re: [Samba] WINS querying (Advanced)
> > "nmblookup" can do that.  A live example of me looking up my login
> > name, returning the machine I'm logged in on:
> >
> > >nmblookup -U ussjodns01 -R "jimw#3"
> > querying jimw on 167.116.93.31
> > 167.116.93.181 jimw<03>
> >
> > There's an example in the manpage for nmblookup.
> 
> Yep, but it's not very clear and your above example doesn't do it here. I've
> read the Q119495 article as well for these names.
> 
> For example...your query
> # nmblookup -U 10.0.10.9 -R "gwebster#3"
> querying gwebster on 10.0.10.9
> wins_srv_died(): Could not mark WINS server 10.0.10.9 down.
> Address not found in server list.
> name_query failed to find name gwebster#03
> 
> While the following does give the opposite info:
> # nmblookup -U 10.0.10.9 -A 10.0.29.33
> Looking up status of 10.0.29.33
>         AHBL29033       <00> -         M <ACTIVE>
>         AHBLNT1         <00> - <GROUP> M <ACTIVE>
>         AHBL29033       <03> -         M <ACTIVE>
>         AHBL29033       <20> -         M <ACTIVE>
>         AHBLNT1         <1e> - <GROUP> M <ACTIVE>
>         AHBL29033       <01> -         M <ACTIVE>
>         GWEBSTER        <03> -         M <ACTIVE>
> 

I don't think this is doing what you believe. The -U and -A options
don't work together. This command does the exact same thing if you
leave out the -U part because it is querying the machine at the 
IP address specified by the -A. You are not getting this info from the
WINS server.

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