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Authored by: zimwy on Dec 11, '03 12:01:26PM

Hi,
For those of us who aren't windows people ( :) ), how does one find the NETBIOS name of a computer?

Thanks!



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Authored by: waffffffle on Dec 11, '03 12:07:32PM

I'm not sure. If you can browse the windows network neighborhood then you can tell by what the names of the network computers are. However I am not sure about computers that aren't sharing things on the network. You may need to try and find out the naming convention of computers on the network. I know that on my university network all Windows 2000 computers and later must be named for the student's user name but that's just here. If anyone knows a trick using smbclient to translate an IP to a netbios name please post it.



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Authored by: stonemtn on Dec 11, '03 12:08:49PM

On a Windows 2000 network, you can actually use the USERNAME rather than the NETBIOS name. I've been using it all morning to great effect!



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Authored by: fxg97873 on Dec 11, '03 03:18:15PM

In the Terminal, type in:

findsmb

This will give you a list of all the smb clients in your subnet.



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Authored by: msk on Dec 11, '03 03:55:29PM

Which ports do I need to open n my ipfw configuration to make this work? I think I hardened my OS X machine to much for these little tricks.



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Authored by: olnorth on Dec 17, '03 02:19:31PM

It looks like SMB runs on port 139.



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Authored by: olnorth on Dec 17, '03 02:22:44PM

You can also do the following:

This gives you the IP:
nmblookup -R [NETBIOS name]

This gives you the NETBIOS name:
nmblookup -A [IP]

But I agree, findsmb is far more useful :-)



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