Finding out IP Number.

[Matthew Carpenter]

If they run Samba or are a Windows box, I always do the following:

# nmblookup -A <ip-address>

Actually, not helping you but to disperse the information, here is the
actual script I use, since I run on a network with multiple WINS servers
and like to lookup using either name or IP without worrying about syntax:

~/bin/nmbcheck
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#!/bin/bash
IPADDY=`echo "$*" | grep "^[0-9]*\.[0-9]*\.[0-9]*\.[0-9]*$"`
if [ .$IPADDY == . ] ; then
        echo "Executing CIFS Query on HOSTNAME"
        nmblookup -R -S -U <wins-server> $*
else
        echo "Executing CIFS Query on IP Address"
        nmblookup -R -U <wins-server> -A $*
fi
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Try it out.  It's very nice.  Not only does it tell you the name of the
machine, but the workgroup/domain name and whoever is logged into it (if
it's Winblows).

-Matt

On Tue, 22 Oct 2002 08:37:53 -0500
"Ben Duncan" <bns at meta3.net> wrote:

> I need to know a users telneted/rlogin .etc ..etc.. IP on a flat 
> network that does not have DNS.
> 
> Any Idea how to get it?
> 
> Who -l , only does a DNS resolution.
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