1<html><head><meta http-equiv="Content-Type" content="text/html; charset=ISO-8859-1"><title>findsmb</title><link rel="stylesheet" href="samba.css" type="text/css"><meta name="generator" content="DocBook XSL Stylesheets V1.61.2"></head><body bgcolor="white" text="black" link="#0000FF" vlink="#840084" alink="#0000FF"><div class="refentry" lang="en"><a name="findsmb.1"></a><div class="titlepage"><div></div><div></div></div><div class="refnamediv"><h2>Name</h2><p>findsmb — list info about machines that respond to SMB 2 name queries on a subnet</p></div><div class="refsynopsisdiv"><h2>Synopsis</h2><div class="cmdsynopsis"><p><tt class="command">findsmb</tt> [subnet broadcast address]</p></div></div><div class="refsect1" lang="en"><h2>DESCRIPTION</h2><p>This perl script is part of the <a href="Samba.7.html"><span class="citerefentry"><span class="refentrytitle">Samba</span>(7)</span></a> 3 suite.</p><p><b class="command">findsmb</b> is a perl script that 4 prints out several pieces of information about machines 5 on a subnet that respond to SMB name query requests. 6 It uses <a href="nmblookup.1.html"><span class="citerefentry"><span class="refentrytitle">nmblookup</span>(1)</span></a> 7 and <a href="smbclient.1.html"><span class="citerefentry"><span class="refentrytitle">smbclient</span>(1)</span></a> 8 to obtain this information. 9 </p></div><div class="refsect1" lang="en"><h2>OPTIONS</h2><div class="variablelist"><dl><dt><span class="term">-r</span></dt><dd><p>Controls whether <b class="command">findsmb</b> takes 10 bugs in Windows95 into account when trying to find a Netbios name 11 registered of the remote machine. This option is disabled by default 12 because it is specific to Windows 95 and Windows 95 machines only. 13 If set, <a href="nmblookup.1.html"><span class="citerefentry"><span class="refentrytitle">nmblookup</span>(1)</span></a> 14 will be called with <tt class="constant">-B</tt> option.</p></dd><dt><span class="term">subnet broadcast address</span></dt><dd><p>Without this option, <b class="command">findsmb 15 </b> will probe the subnet of the machine where 16 <a href="findsmb.1.html"><span class="citerefentry"><span class="refentrytitle">findsmb</span>(1)</span></a> 17 is run. This value is passed to 18 <a href="nmblookup.1.html"><span class="citerefentry"><span class="refentrytitle">nmblookup</span>(1)</span></a> 19 as part of the <tt class="constant">-B</tt> option.</p></dd></dl></div></div><div class="refsect1" lang="en"><h2>EXAMPLES</h2><p>The output of <b class="command">findsmb</b> lists the following 20 information for all machines that respond to the initial 21 <b class="command">nmblookup</b> for any name: IP address, NetBIOS name, 22 Workgroup name, operating system, and SMB server version.</p><p>There will be a '+' in front of the workgroup name for 23 machines that are local master browsers for that workgroup. There 24 will be an '*' in front of the workgroup name for 25 machines that are the domain master browser for that workgroup. 26 Machines that are running Windows, Windows 95 or Windows 98 will 27 not show any information about the operating system or server 28 version.</p><p>The command with <tt class="constant">-r</tt> option 29 must be run on a system without <a href="nmbd.8.html"><span class="citerefentry"><span class="refentrytitle">nmbd</span>(8)</span></a> running. 30 31 If <b class="command">nmbd</b> is running on the system, you will 32 only get the IP address and the DNS name of the machine. To 33 get proper responses from Windows 95 and Windows 98 machines, 34 the command must be run as root and with <tt class="constant">-r</tt> 35 option on a machine without <b class="command">nmbd</b> running.</p><p>For example, running <b class="command">findsmb</b> 36 without <tt class="constant">-r</tt> option set would yield output similar 37 to the following</p><pre class="screen"> 38IP ADDR NETBIOS NAME WORKGROUP/OS/VERSION 39--------------------------------------------------------------------- 40192.168.35.10 MINESET-TEST1 [DMVENGR] 41192.168.35.55 LINUXBOX *[MYGROUP] [Unix] [Samba 2.0.6] 42192.168.35.56 HERBNT2 [HERB-NT] 43192.168.35.63 GANDALF [MVENGR] [Unix] [Samba 2.0.5a for IRIX] 44192.168.35.65 SAUNA [WORKGROUP] [Unix] [Samba 1.9.18p10] 45192.168.35.71 FROGSTAR [ENGR] [Unix] [Samba 2.0.0 for IRIX] 46192.168.35.78 HERBDHCP1 +[HERB] 47192.168.35.88 SCNT2 +[MVENGR] [Windows NT 4.0] [NT LAN Manager 4.0] 48192.168.35.93 FROGSTAR-PC [MVENGR] [Windows 5.0] [Windows 2000 LAN Manager] 49192.168.35.97 HERBNT1 *[HERB-NT] [Windows NT 4.0] [NT LAN Manager 4.0] 50</pre></div><div class="refsect1" lang="en"><h2>VERSION</h2><p>This man page is correct for version 3.0 of 51 the Samba suite.</p></div><div class="refsect1" lang="en"><h2>SEE ALSO</h2><p><a href="nmbd.8.html"><span class="citerefentry"><span class="refentrytitle">nmbd</span>(8)</span></a>, 52 <a href="smbclient.1.html"><span class="citerefentry"><span class="refentrytitle">smbclient</span>(1)</span></a>, and <a href="nmblookup.1.html"><span class="citerefentry"><span class="refentrytitle">nmblookup</span>(1)</span></a> 53 </p></div><div class="refsect1" lang="en"><h2>AUTHOR</h2><p>The original Samba software and related utilities 54 were created by Andrew Tridgell. Samba is now developed 55 by the Samba Team as an Open Source project similar 56 to the way the Linux kernel is developed.</p><p>The original Samba man pages were written by Karl Auer. 57 The man page sources were converted to YODL format (another 58 excellent piece of Open Source software, available at <a href="ftp://ftp.icce.rug.nl/pub/unix/" target="_top">ftp://ftp.icce.rug.nl/pub/unix/</a>) 59 and updated for the Samba 2.0 release by Jeremy Allison. The conversion to DocBook for 60 Samba 2.2 was done by Gerald Carter. The conversion to DocBook 61 XML 4.2 for Samba 3.0 was done by Alexander Bokovoy.</p></div></div></body></html> 62