[Samba] Lightweight nmblookup

Gerald (Jerry) Carter jerry at samba.org
Thu Oct 11 13:09:59 GMT 2007


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Anthony Wright wrote:

> If I were to write a small application to do it, is the 
> exchange as simple as it appears to be in ethereal ?
> (Send a request to the broadcast address, take the IP
> address of the responding packet)

You need to deal with point-to-point queries to a WINS server
possibly.

> Finally, could anybody point me in the direction of 
> some documentation regarding the name encoding
> within the request packet ?

Read RFC 1001/1002 and http://ubiqx.org/cifs/




cheers, jerry
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