NAME

       nmblookup - NetBIOS over TCP/IP client used to lookup NetBIOS names

SYNOPSIS

       nmblookup [-M|--master-browser] [-R|--recursion] [-S|--status] [-r|--root-port]
        [-A|--lookup-by-ip] [-B|--broadcast <broadcast address>] [-U|--unicast <unicast address>]
        [-d <debug level>] [-s <smb config file>] [-i <NetBIOS scope>] [-T|--translate]
        [-f|--flags] {name}

DESCRIPTION

       This tool is part of the samba(7) suite.

       nmblookup is used to query NetBIOS names and map them to IP addresses in a network using
       NetBIOS over TCP/IP queries. The options allow the name queries to be directed at a
       particular IP broadcast area or to a particular machine. All queries are done over UDP.

OPTIONS

       -M|--master-browser
           Searches for a master browser by looking up the NetBIOS name with a type of 0x1d. If
            name is "-" then it does a lookup on the special name __MSBROWSE__. Please note that
           in order to use the name "-", you need to make sure "-" isn't parsed as an argument,
           e.g. use : nmblookup -M -- -.

       -R|--recursion
           Set the recursion desired bit in the packet to do a recursive lookup. This is used
           when sending a name query to a machine running a WINS server and the user wishes to
           query the names in the WINS server. If this bit is unset the normal (broadcast
           responding) NetBIOS processing code on a machine is used instead. See RFC1001, RFC1002
           for details.

       -S|--status
           Once the name query has returned an IP address then do a node status query as well. A
           node status query returns the NetBIOS names registered by a host.

       -r|--root-port
           Try and bind to UDP port 137 to send and receive UDP datagrams. The reason for this
           option is a bug in Windows 95 where it ignores the source port of the requesting
           packet and only replies to UDP port 137. Unfortunately, on most UNIX systems root
           privilege is needed to bind to this port, and in addition, if the nmbd(8) daemon is
           running on this machine it also binds to this port.

       -A|--lookup-by-ip
           Interpret name as an IP Address and do a node status query on this address.

       -n|--netbiosname <primary NetBIOS name>
           This option allows you to override the NetBIOS name that Samba uses for itself. This
           is identical to setting the netbios name parameter in the smb.conf file. However, a
           command line setting will take precedence over settings in smb.conf.

       -i|--scope <scope>
           This specifies a NetBIOS scope that nmblookup will use to communicate with when
           generating NetBIOS names. For details on the use of NetBIOS scopes, see rfc1001.txt
           and rfc1002.txt. NetBIOS scopes are very rarely used, only set this parameter if you
           are the system administrator in charge of all the NetBIOS systems you communicate
           with.

       -W|--workgroup=domain
           Set the SMB domain of the username. This overrides the default domain which is the
           domain defined in smb.conf. If the domain specified is the same as the servers NetBIOS
           name, it causes the client to log on using the servers local SAM (as opposed to the
           Domain SAM).

       -O|--socket-options socket options
           TCP socket options to set on the client socket. See the socket options parameter in
           the smb.conf manual page for the list of valid options.

       -?|--help
           Print a summary of command line options.

       --usage
           Display brief usage message.

       -B|--broadcast <broadcast address>
           Send the query to the given broadcast address. Without this option the default
           behavior of nmblookup is to send the query to the broadcast address of the network
           interfaces as either auto-detected or defined in the interfaces parameter of the
           smb.conf(5) file.

       -U|--unicast <unicast address>
           Do a unicast query to the specified address or host unicast address. This option
           (along with the -R option) is needed to query a WINS server.

       -d|--debuglevel=level
           level is an integer from 0 to 10. The default value if this parameter is not specified
           is 0.

           The higher this value, the more detail will be logged to the log files about the
           activities of the server. At level 0, only critical errors and serious warnings will
           be logged. Level 1 is a reasonable level for day-to-day running - it generates a small
           amount of information about operations carried out.

           Levels above 1 will generate considerable amounts of log data, and should only be used
           when investigating a problem. Levels above 3 are designed for use only by developers
           and generate HUGE amounts of log data, most of which is extremely cryptic.

           Note that specifying this parameter here will override the log level parameter in the
           smb.conf file.

       -V|--version
           Prints the program version number.

       -s|--configfile=<configuration file>
           The file specified contains the configuration details required by the server. The
           information in this file includes server-specific information such as what printcap
           file to use, as well as descriptions of all the services that the server is to
           provide. See smb.conf for more information. The default configuration file name is
           determined at compile time.

       -l|--log-basename=logdirectory
           Base directory name for log/debug files. The extension ".progname" will be appended
           (e.g. log.smbclient, log.smbd, etc...). The log file is never removed by the client.

       --option=<name>=<value>
           Set the smb.conf(5) option "<name>" to value "<value>" from the command line. This
           overrides compiled-in defaults and options read from the configuration file.

       -T|--translate
           This causes any IP addresses found in the lookup to be looked up via a reverse DNS
           lookup into a DNS name, and printed out before each

           IP address .... NetBIOS name

           pair that is the normal output.

       -f|--flags
           Show which flags apply to the name that has been looked up. Possible answers are zero
           or more of: Response, Authoritative, Truncated, Recursion_Desired,
           Recursion_Available, Broadcast.

       name
           This is the NetBIOS name being queried. Depending upon the previous options this may
           be a NetBIOS name or IP address. If a NetBIOS name then the different name types may
           be specified by appending '#<type>' to the name. This name may also be '*', which will
           return all registered names within a broadcast area.

EXAMPLES

       nmblookup can be used to query a WINS server (in the same way nslookup is used to query
       DNS servers). To query a WINS server, nmblookup must be called like this:

       nmblookup -U server -R 'name'

       For example, running :

       nmblookup -U samba.org -R 'IRIX#1B'

       would query the WINS server samba.org for the domain master browser (1B name type) for the
       IRIX workgroup.

VERSION

       This man page is correct for version 3 of the Samba suite.

SEE ALSO

       nmbd(8), samba(7), and smb.conf(5).

AUTHOR

       The original Samba software and related utilities were created by Andrew Tridgell. Samba
       is now developed by the Samba Team as an Open Source project similar to the way the Linux
       kernel is developed.

       The original Samba man pages were written by Karl Auer. The man page sources were
       converted to YODL format (another excellent piece of Open Source software, available at
       ftp://ftp.icce.rug.nl/pub/unix/) and updated for the Samba 2.0 release by Jeremy Allison.
       The conversion to DocBook for Samba 2.2 was done by Gerald Carter. The conversion to
       DocBook XML 4.2 for Samba 3.0 was done by Alexander Bokovoy.