Does anyone know if a Linux server can identify windows users connected to the server through a Samba share, where Samba has not been configured as a domain controller (i.e. samba is resolving user accounts with smbpasswd only). Are the windows users always synced with a UNIX user?
I am writing a bash script for a rather peculiar backup scenario where laptops running Windows 7 are backed up to a server when/if they are connected to the LAN using rsync. There is no local DNS server or domain controller installed in the LAN (other than the router which is only configured for DHCP service). I had planned to use the following to generate a list of connected users: who | cut -d' ' -f1 | sort | uniq > /srv/backup/user.lst This list would then be read into a bash array and used to iterate the backup script for those known connected users. However, If I can't verify Windows users that are connected is there a clean non-taxing way to test for the mac addresses of the connected laptops over the LAN? I know that using: nmap -sP <ip address range> will return the mac address along with other info, but I don't know if there is a way to get a clean mac address only list from scan. Any thoughts would be greatly appreciated. Thanks -- James
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