Um hmmmm I'm assuming you mean from a remote host, if its running windows and name resolution is set up right, then you can just ping the host name.
C:\Documents and Settings\SJr>ping GAUSS Pinging GAUSS [192.168.0.30] with 32 bytes of data: Like so... Steve -----Original Message----- From: Marcin [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: April 8, 2004 8:31 AM To: Debian-Security Subject: Re: get ip from samba Hello, > Is there a way to get a machine's ip address, if I only know it's > netbios name? see in wins.dat file. default: /var/lock/samba/wins.dat for example: "ADTK#00" 1081647851 192.168.14.22 64R there are NetBios Names, IPs, smb flags etc... this is normal text file. -- Marcin. \\|// (o o) ~~~~oOOo~(_)~oOOo~~~~ Cheers -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED] -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
