[Samba] ipconfig equivalent in linux samba specific

[Jeff Sadowski]

yes I just want to be complete. I guess I could always answer
'Unknown" but I like being pedantic

On Fri, Mar 8, 2019 at 8:41 AM Rowland Penny via samba
<samba at lists.samba.org> wrote:
>
> On Fri, 8 Mar 2019 08:22:25 -0700
> Jeff Sadowski via samba <samba at lists.samba.org> wrote:
>
> > In general for what most people do ipconfig is equivalent to ifconfig
> > (getting phased out) or ip in linux.
> >
> > What I am trying to do is create ipconfig script that acts identical
> > to the windows behavior's output so I can create better scripts in
> > powershell that work on both platforms.
> >
> > ipconfig has few options that are not listed with ifconfig or ip.
> > The Windows IP Configuration section has two values I am unsure of
> > Specifically "Node type" output from ipconfig. Is there a way in linux
> > to get the nodetype? I don't think it applies in general. Is it used
> > in Samba?
> > and
> > Wins Proxy Enabled
> >
> > I can get hostname and primary dns suffix from the hostname command
> > I can get DNS Suffix Search List from /etc/resolv.conf
> > I think I can get Description from dmesg
> > ip routing enabled I can probably get by doing an analysis of the
> > routes and if there are more than one I might want to output yes
> > there might be better ways
> >
> > Are these set in samba? is there a command I can use to get these
> > values that you guys know of?
> >
>
> I take it we are talking about netbios node types and wins here ?
>
> If we are and we are also talking about AD, why bother ? netbios is
> going away and you should use dns instead of wins.
>
> Rowland
>
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