NAME

       nbtscan —  program for scanning networks for NetBIOS name information

SYNOPSIS

       nbtscan  [-v]   [-d]  [-e]  [-l]  [-t timeout]  [-b bandwidth]  [-r]  [-q]  [-s separator]
       [-h]  [-m retransmits]  [-f filename | scan_range]

DESCRIPTION

       This manual page documents briefly the nbtscan command.

       This manual page was written for the Debian GNU/Linux distribution  because  the  original
       program does not have a manual page.

       nbtscan  is  a  program  for  scanning  IP networks for NetBIOS name information. It sends
       NetBIOS status query to each address in supplied range and lists received  information  in
       human  readable  form. For each responded host it lists IP address, NetBIOS computer name,
       logged-in user name and MAC address (such as Ethernet).

OPTIONS

       A summary of options is included below.

       -v        Verbose output. Print all names received from each host.

       -d        Dump packets. Print whole packet contents. Cannot be used  with  -v,  -s  or  -h
                 options.

       -e        Format output in /etc/hosts format.

       -l        Format output in lmhosts format. Cannot be used with -v, -s or -h options.

       -t timeout
                 Wait timeout seconds for response. Default 1.

       -b bandwidth
                 Output  throttling. Slow down output so that it uses no more that bandwidth bps.
                 Useful on slow links, so that ougoing queries don't get dropped.

       -r        Use local port 137 for scans. Win95 boxes respond to this only.  You need to  be
                 root to use this option.

       -q        Suppress banners and error messages.

       -s separator
                 Script-friendly  output.  Don't print column and record headers, separate fields
                 with separator.

       -h        Print human-readble names for services.  Can only be used with -v option.

       -m retransmits
                 Number of retransmits. Default 0.

       -f filename
                 Take IP addresses to scan from file "filename"

       scan_range
                 What to scan. Can either be single IP like 192.168.1.1 or range of addresses  in
                 one of two forms: xxx.xxx.xxx.xxx/xx or xxx.xxx.xxx.xxx-xxx.

BUGS

       Report  bugs to alla@sovlink.ru (that's autor of nbtscan). I cannot promise to do anything
       but I might well want fix it. Remember: no warranty.  At least it's worth what  you  payed
       for it.

AUTHOR

       This  manual  page  was  written  by  Ryszard Lach rla@debian.org for the Debian GNU/Linux
       system (but may be used  by  others)  and  is  based  on  nbtscan  author's  README  file.
       Permission  is  granted to copy, distribute and/or modify this document under the terms of
       the GNU Free Documentation License, Version 1.1 or any later version published by the Free
       Software Foundation.

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