OPTIONS¶
-M|--master-browser
Searches for a master browser by looking up the NetBIOS
name with a type of 0x1d. If name is "-" then
it does a lookup on the special name __MSBROWSE__. Please note that in
order to use the name "-", you need to make sure "-" isn't
parsed as an argument, e.g. use : nmblookup -M -- -.
--recursion
Set the recursion desired bit in the packet to do a
recursive lookup. This is used when sending a name query to a machine running
a WINS server and the user wishes to query the names in the WINS server. If
this bit is unset the normal (broadcast responding) NetBIOS processing code on
a machine is used instead. See RFC1001, RFC1002 for details.
-S|--status
Once the name query has returned an IP address then do a
node status query as well. A node status query returns the NetBIOS names
registered by a host.
-r|--root-port
Try and bind to UDP port 137 to send and receive UDP
datagrams. The reason for this option is a bug in Windows 95 where it ignores
the source port of the requesting packet and only replies to UDP port 137.
Unfortunately, on most UNIX systems root privilege is needed to bind to this
port, and in addition, if the
nmbd(8) daemon is running on this machine
it also binds to this port.
-A|--lookup-by-ip
Interpret name as an IP Address and do a node
status query on this address.
-B|--broadcast <broadcast address>
Send the query to the given broadcast address. Without
this option the default behavior of nmblookup is to send the query to the
broadcast address of the network interfaces as either auto-detected or defined
in the
interfaces parameter of the
smb.conf(5) file.
-U|--unicast <unicast address>
Do a unicast query to the specified address or host
unicast address. This option (along with the -R option) is
needed to query a WINS server.
-T|--translate
This causes any IP addresses found in the lookup to be
looked up via a reverse DNS lookup into a DNS name, and printed out before
each
IP address .... NetBIOS name
pair that is the normal output.
-f|--flags
Show which flags apply to the name that has been looked
up. Possible answers are zero or more of: Response, Authoritative, Truncated,
Recursion_Desired, Recursion_Available, Broadcast.
name
This is the NetBIOS name being queried. Depending upon
the previous options this may be a NetBIOS name or IP address. If a NetBIOS
name then the different name types may be specified by appending
'#<type>' to the name. This name may also be '*', which will return all
registered names within a broadcast area.
-d|--debuglevel=DEBUGLEVEL
level is an integer from 0 to 10. The default
value if this parameter is not specified is 1 for client applications.
The higher this value, the more detail will be logged to the log
files about the activities of the server. At level 0, only critical errors
and serious warnings will be logged. Level 1 is a reasonable level for
day-to-day running - it generates a small amount of information about
operations carried out.
Levels above 1 will generate considerable amounts of log data, and
should only be used when investigating a problem. Levels above 3 are
designed for use only by developers and generate HUGE amounts of log data,
most of which is extremely cryptic.
Note that specifying this parameter here will override the log
level parameter in the /etc/samba/smb.conf file.
--debug-stdout
This will redirect debug output to STDOUT. By default all
clients are logging to STDERR.
--configfile=<configuration file>
The file specified contains the configuration details
required by the client. The information in this file can be general for client
and server or only provide client specific like options such as client smb
encrypt. See /etc/samba/smb.conf for more information. The default
configuration file name is determined at compile time.
--option=<name>=<value>
Set the
smb.conf(5) option
"<name>" to value "<value>" from the command
line. This overrides compiled-in defaults and options read from the
configuration file. If a name or a value includes a space, wrap whole
--option=name=value into quotes.
-l|--log-basename=logdirectory
Base directory name for log/debug files. The extension
".progname" will be appended (e.g. log.smbclient, log.smbd,
etc...). The log file is never removed by the client.
--leak-report
Enable talloc leak reporting on exit.
--leak-report-full
Enable full talloc leak reporting on exit.
-V|--version
Prints the program version number.
-R|--name-resolve=NAME-RESOLVE-ORDER
This option is used to determine what naming services and
in what order to resolve host names to IP addresses. The option takes a
space-separated string of different name resolution options. The best is to
wrap the whole --name-resolve=NAME-RESOLVE-ORDER into quotes.
The options are: "lmhosts", "host",
"wins" and "bcast". They cause names to be resolved as
follows:
•
lmhosts: Lookup an IP address in the Samba
lmhosts file. If the line in lmhosts has no name type attached to the NetBIOS
name (see the
lmhosts(5) for details) then any name type matches for
lookup.
•host: Do a standard host name to IP
address resolution, using the system /etc/hosts, NIS, or DNS lookups. This
method of name resolution is operating system dependent, for instance on IRIX
or Solaris this may be controlled by the /etc/nsswitch.conf file). Note that
this method is only used if the NetBIOS name type being queried is the 0x20
(server) name type, otherwise it is ignored.
•wins: Query a name with the IP address
listed in the wins server parameter. If no WINS server has been
specified this method will be ignored.
•bcast: Do a broadcast on each of the known
local interfaces listed in the interfaces parameter. This is the least
reliable of the name resolution methods as it depends on the target host being
on a locally connected subnet.
If this parameter is not set then the name resolve order defined in the
/etc/samba/smb.conf file parameter (
name resolve order) will be used.
The default order is lmhosts, host, wins, bcast. Without this
parameter or any entry in the name resolve order parameter of the
/etc/samba/smb.conf file, the name resolution methods will be attempted in
this order.
-O|--socket-options=SOCKETOPTIONS
TCP socket options to set on the client socket. See the
socket options parameter in the /etc/samba/smb.conf manual page for the list
of valid options.
-m|--max-protocol=MAXPROTOCOL
The value of the parameter (a string) is the highest
protocol level that will be supported by the client.
Note that specifying this parameter here will override the
client max protocol parameter in the /etc/samba/smb.conf file.
-n|--netbiosname=NETBIOSNAME
This option allows you to override the NetBIOS name that
Samba uses for itself. This is identical to setting the netbios name
parameter in the /etc/samba/smb.conf file. However, a command line setting
will take precedence over settings in /etc/samba/smb.conf.
--netbios-scope=SCOPE
This specifies a NetBIOS scope that nmblookup will use to
communicate with when generating NetBIOS names. For details on the use of
NetBIOS scopes, see rfc1001.txt and rfc1002.txt. NetBIOS scopes are
very rarely used, only set this parameter if you are the system
administrator in charge of all the NetBIOS systems you communicate with.
-W|--workgroup=WORKGROUP
Set the SMB domain of the username. This overrides the
default domain which is the domain defined in smb.conf. If the domain
specified is the same as the servers NetBIOS name, it causes the client to log
on using the servers local SAM (as opposed to the Domain SAM).
Note that specifying this parameter here will override the
workgroup parameter in the /etc/samba/smb.conf file.
-r|--realm=REALM
Set the realm for the domain.
Note that specifying this parameter here will override the
realm parameter in the /etc/samba/smb.conf file.
-?|--help
Print a summary of command line options.
--usage
Display brief usage message.