NAME¶

nmbstatus - Lists NMB node status of a UDP network

SYNOPSIS¶

nmbstatus [options]

Options: --workgroup --pdc --bdc --lmb --dmb --members --quiet --allworkgroups --winsserver --print0 --debug --help --man

GENERAL OPTIONS¶

--help

Print a brief help message and exits.Prints a help message.

--man

Print the manual page and exit.

--print0

Use '\0' instead of a tab stop as seperator between the output.

--debug

Use an debuglevel. No debuglevel available yet.

GENERAL ARGUMENTS¶

--workgroup

Perform all actions on this workgroup name. If no workgroup is set the information off all available groups is shown.

--pdc

If not called in conjunction with --quiet print a line starting with the acronym PDC followed by the seperator and the netbios name of the PDC if one is available. If not print nothing and return with 1.

--bdc

If not called in conjunction with --quiet print a line starting with the acronym BDC followed by the seperator and the netbios name of the BDC if one is available. If not print nothing and return with 1.

--dmb

If not called in conjunction with --quiet print a line starting with the acronym DMB followed by the seperator and the netbios name of the DMB if one is available. If not print nothing and return with 1.

--lmb

If not called in conjunction with --quiet print a line starting with the acronym LMB followed by the seperator and the netbios name of the LMB if one is available. If not print nothing and return with 1.

--members

If not called in conjunction with --quiet print a line starting with the word MEMBERS followed by the seperator and the netbios names of the workgroup members. If not print nothing and return with 1.

--quiet

Don't print any information. Just return with 0 if a type - pdc, lmb, dmb, or members was found. Else return 1.

--allworkgroups

List all available workgroups.

--winsserver

Use this WINS server to gather the information.

DESCRIPTION¶

nmbstatus will detect workgroups, PDCs, BDCs, DMBs, LMBs, and Members of workgroups in your network.

If more than one type is specizied but only one result found, nmbstatus nevertheless returns 0.

AUTHOR¶

Lars Mueller <lmuelle@suse.de>

If you find any errors in the code please let me know.

COPYRIGHT¶

Copyright (c) 2003-2004 SuSE Linux AG. All rights reserved.

This program is free software; you can redistribute it and/or modify it under the same terms as Perl itself.