nmbstatus(1)

NAME

       nmbstatus - Lists NMB node status of a UDP network

SYNOPSIS

       nmbstatus [options]

       Options: --workgroup --pdc --bdc --lmb --dmb --members --quiet --all-
       workgroups --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.

perl v5.8.8                       2004-02-24                      NMBSTATUS(1)