[TriLUG] Get NetBIOS name from IP

[Chris Knowles]

If you have samba properly configured on your box, then "nmblookup -A
<IP>" is your man.

CJK

On Mon, 2005-06-20 at 14:09 -0400, Brian Henning wrote:
> Hi Gang,
>    What's the best way, from a Linux platform, to find the NetBIOS name 
> of a Windows host on my switched LAN when I know its IP?  I used to use 
> ettercap to do this, but ettercap has undergone massive changes to its 
> basic operating procedures, and I haven't yet figured out how to use it 
> again.
> 
> It'd be really groovy to have an automated method of doing this that I 
> could integrate into my subnet monitoring scripts (which right now just 
> pings IP ranges to see who is up...would be awesome to match that up, 
> maybe via MAC, to machines in my resource management system).
> 
> Any hints or suggestions?
> 
> Thanks a ton,
> ~Brian