[Samba] how to check IP addresses of machines in the network?

[Daniel Wilson]

try the tool that comes with samba (findsmb)?!

Tomasz Chmielewski wrote:

> Hello,
>
> This post is similar to what I posted yesterday '"smbclient -L host" 
> to list IP addresses - possible?'.
>
> I have a PDC in one place and many workstations in different other 
> places connected using WAN/VPN.
>
> These workstations have rather changing IPs assigned by DHCP.
>
> Sometimes I need to connect to these machines using VNC, for example, 
> connect to machine AC-PC001 to show something to the user or fix 
> something when a user is not there.
>
> However, smbclient -L pdc gives me only netbios names, and not IP 
> addresses:
>
> $ smbclient -L pdc
> (...)
>         Server               Comment
>         ---------            -------
>         AC-PC001
>         AC-PC002
>
> How can I list workstations with their netbios names and corresponding 
> IP addresses?
>
>
> Tomek


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