[Tfug] NetID to IP addy (AKA, that's what you get for not teaching in a while...)

[Choprboy]

On Wednesday 07 July 2004 09:43, Andrew Huntwork wrote:
> smbclient -d 3 -L vader shows me the ip address for the machine whose 
> netid name is vader.  i haven't used it in years, but i seem to recall 
> that nbtstat is the way to go on windows.
> 

That works. You can also just do a "nmblookup vader" (as opposed to nslookup) 
whihc does a NMB broadcast for the Windows machine to respond.

Adrian