[Samba] Trouble finding all smb shares on network

[Steve Gehrman]

Hi, just joined the list and know very little about smb.

I'm trying to do something that should be simple, but my current  
solution isn't working 100%

All I need is a list of smb shares on the network.

I'm doing this:

/usr/bin/nmblookup -M -- -

and then use this on each ip returned:

/usr/bin/smbclient -g -p 139 -NL <ip addr>

That works for most cases but it fails to find all the shares  
(compared to the mac Finder)

I asked Apple developer tech support to help, but they don't want to  
give me the complete solution.  There seems to be some additional  
things I need to do to ensure that I find every smb share.

> I've just had a brief discussion with the engineer who implements  
> the support for the Finder to identify the SMB clients which are  
> present on the local area network. I've now verified that the  
> nmblookup and the smbclient tools are the only ones which are used  
> to identify the SMB servers, HOWEVER, the use of these tools which I  
> presented to you is only one case as to how these tools are used.  
> The one scenario which I provided is a common means for identifying  
> the bulk of SMB servers. By changing the arguments to nmblookup,  
> other servers can be identified.
>
> There are different ways to the the nmblookup call to identify other  
> servers which might be present. It turns out that the use of these  
> tools follows the Samba specification. Unfortunately, the mechanism  
> which the Finder uses to make the nmblookup call is part of  
> proprietary code. The Finder engineer suggests that you go to the www.samba.org 
>  web site for information as to identifying smb volumes.
>

So, according to Apple, there is some secret alternate method of  
calling nmblookup to get the real list of shares, but they won't tell  
me what it is.

Please give me a hint, point me to docs or something. I'm on a mac and  
just want to get the same list displayed in the Finders "Shared"  
section of the sidebar.

Thanks!!

-steve