[Samba] how to check IP addresses of machines in the network?
Thomas M. Skeren III
tms3 at fskklaw.com
Tue Jan 18 12:04:45 GMT 2005
Daniel Wilson wrote:
> 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:
>
use smbstatus:
PRiSM# smbstatus
Samba version 3.0.7
PID Username Group Machine
-------------------------------------------------------------------
16082 xxx xxxx sm (192.168.65.1)
14557 xxxxx xxxx thejudge (192.168.64.190)
>>
>> $ 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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