[Samba] Keeping a list of NetBIOS names on a network?

[Herb Lewis]

Actually it looks like this is only available for IRIX. I thought
it had been ported to other platforms as well. :-(

Herb Lewis wrote:
> winbindd has the capability of doing hostname resolution for
> NetBIOS names and can then be added to nsswitch.conf. Check out
> the man pages.
> 
> Matthew Dempsky wrote:
>> Thanks for the findsmb and wins.dat tips! :)
>>
>> On Mon, Aug 17, 2009 at 11:03 AM, Gerald Carter<jerry at plainjoe.org> 
>> wrote:
>>> Another alternative would be to look at integrating your
>>> DNS server with nmbd, perhaps using the wins.dat (or whatever
>>> the WINS db is backed up to now).
>>
>> Running nmbd is an option, but according to the man pages, it only
>> maintains wins.dat and/or browse.dat if it's the WINS server and/or
>> browse master (respectively), of which there can only be one of either
>> on a network.  If possible, I'd like to avoid requiring network
>> administrators to alter their network configuration.