mounting shares on diff networks

[Vivek Malik]

well using windows i can use "find computer" and use the ip to search 
for share and mount it.

i just know the ip address and not the netbios name. So, either windows 
can connect without using the netbios name or windows somehow finds out 
the netbios name corresponding to the ip address.

In case, windows finds out the netbios name corresponding to the ip 
address i search for using "Find Computer", i too wanna do the same.

And in case windows can mount the shares without worrying abt the 
netbios name, i too wanna do the same.

So, how can i find out the netbios name corresponding to a ip when the 
computer is on a different network.

vivek

Urban Widmark wrote:

> On Mon, 28 Jan 2002, Vivek Malik wrote:
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>>How can i use smbmount to mount the share avaliable on say 10.140.2.90
>>using smbmount.
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> mount -t smbfs -o username=foo,ip=10.140.2.90 //netbios/share /mnt/smb
> 
> netbios must be the netbios name for some servers to accept you (win9x).
> For NT/2k/XP it should work with the ip number there. Some NT boxes will
> fail unless you also give it a correct "workgroup=..." option.
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> /Urban
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