Hi,

As I send a "net send" (using smbclient) message to various machines within the company WAN the only way of me finding out the NETBIOS name is to run a NETBIOS scan on that IP alone. Then parse the text and gather the NETBIOS information that way, so I can use it with the smbclient -M flag.

The command would look like this

echo blah | smbclient -M <netbios name destination> -I <IP address of destination>

Under windows you can send a NET SEND message just using the machines IP address, do you feel this is possible under Linux?

I'm slightly confused why smbclient requires the NETBIOS name.

Any thoughts?

Thanks

Linux does not do a scan using NetBIOS as it should have a list of machine names in the /etc/hosts file.

I may be wrong, but I think NetBIOS only gets names of machines in the local network IP range, which is where either DNS or WINS comes into play. If these aren't used, then that's when a problem arises.

If I'm wrong at all, anyone, please let me know.

-Tefal

Well what IF you don't have all the hosts in /etc/hosts? I don't want ot make my script rigid and non-scalable by HAVING to add hosts to /etc/hosts everytime I need to "net send" to a different machine on the WAN.

If WINDOWS can just send to a IP address (even if there are no entries into any local host file) why can't linux's implementation, i.e. smbclient.

Was this an oversight or a feature? Or am I missing something?

Thanks