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A blog which tries to demystify computer security, point out the half-truths and misinformation which floats around about this subject and hopefully reduce the hype created by semi-informed people. It also has some useful tips from time to time.

Monday, July 09, 2007

Finding a Windows computer based on its NetBios name

A short tip: when working in hybrid environments (that is where both Windows and Linux machines are present), it is useful to be able to lookup a machine IP based on its NetBios name. You can do this by writing nmblookup [the name of the computer]. This will do a broadcast on all the interfaces querying the directly attached subnets for machines which match the given name and will output their IP addresses.

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Cd-MaN5:37 PM
By default it runs NetBIOS, so it should work quite well. By the way NetBIOS over IP is a broadcast level protocol as far as I know, so this will work only on the local subnet.
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