Detecting Windows OS Version through Samba

Agis Andreou aagis at noc.ntua.gr
Wed Mar 5 18:22:48 GMT 2003


Thanks,
could you please mail it to me,  their server
http://www.apostols.org/projectz/queso/
seems to be down at the moment.
Will it distinguish windows flavours?

agis.


Jelmer Vernooij wrote:

>On Wed, Mar 05, 2003 at 06:57:04PM +0100, Simo Sorce wrote about 'Re: Detecting Windows OS Version through Samba':
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>
>>On Wed, 2003-03-05 at 18:52, Agis Andreou wrote:
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>>
>>>Hello everyone,
>>>
>>>I have a samba server and several wannabe clients on a different subnet.
>>>Is there a way to determine their windows os version through the network,
>>>(without actually asking their owners or trying to physicaly locate the 
>>>hosts)?
>>>      
>>>
>>>if i am not mistaken the info i'm looking for is exposed at least during 
>>>the browser election proccess,
>>>but that is not enough since i am on a different subnet. NetBIOS is open 
>>>to those machines.
>>>      
>>>
>>>Is there a cmd line utility or source code for solaris/bsd/linux or 
>>>windows that can be used for that purpose?
>>>      
>>>
>
>You can also try to use the queso tool.
>
>Jelmer
>
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>





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