Automatic discovery of machine names 1

[TonyGroves]

Windows can automatically discover the names of all SMB servers in a LAN, but I can't find anything similar in Samba. I've read all the Samba documentation I can find, but no luck.

I'm a newcomer to Samba (and Linux!), so am I missing something simple?

 

[sleipnir214]

Machine discovery is not a server methodology. It's a client methodology.

Samba is bundled with a number of SMB client utilities. smbtree, for example, can provide a hierarchical tree view of the machines and shares on a network.


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[TonyGroves]

Ah yes, that looks like it should do it!

Thanks.

 

[PHV]

I don't have smbtree and I use something like this:
smbclient -N -L "$(nmblookup -S -M - | awk '/<20>/{print $1;exit}')" | awk '$1=="Server",NF==0'

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[TonyGroves]

Hmm ... it seems I don't have smbtree either. I'll take a note of your solution, PHV, but the latest Samba version might include smbtree, so I'll try downloading that first.

Thanks.

 

[sleipnir214]

If your preferred install system has a package named similarly to "smb-client", the utility might be in there.


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[TonyGroves]

I have "samba-client" installed, and smbclient works OK, but a search for files named smbtree* produces nothing. I notice my Samba package is version 2.2.7, dated March 2003, but the latest version at

http://www.samba.org

is 3.0. Could it be that smbtree is a recent addition to the Samba package?

 

[sleipnir214]

Possibly. I'm running Samba 3.x.x.

The software seems to be Samba-standard, not something that is part of my Linux distribution. An online man page for smbtree appears here


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