I think what you're looking for is:
nmblookup -A <IP Address>
This will return a bunch of stuff. It should be fairly obvious which is the name you're looking for. You could then write a wrapper to pull off just the answer you want.
Beautiful! That is exactly what I wanted. Now, I can send linpopups to Windows users on my network!
--Dave
David Smith wrote:
If I've got an IP address, i.e. 10.0.0.5, and I want to do a reverse lookup to find the Windows name, i.e. "mydesktop", how would I do that on Linux?
--Dave
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