[plug] Samba query (fwd)

[Leon Brooks]

Richard Sharpe wrote:
> At 07:13 PM 9/21/00 +1100, Arie wrote:
>> Leon wrote:
>>> Do you know if W2k responds normally in SMB when
>>> it's semi-configured like this?

>> I don't know enough about SMB to answer how W2k responds.

>> Maybe Richard Sharpe who is a SMB expert can supply an answer?

> Because SMB over NetBIOS over TCP relies on TCP, and uses broadcasts or
> WINS for address resolution and uses broadcasts for browsing functionality,
> not much is likely to work if a client comes up in a different subnet to
> the server.

Hokay, to bring back a little context and exactitude to the question...

IF I do something like:

    ifconfig eth0:0 169.254.0.1 netmask 255.255.0.0 broadcast 169.254.255.255 up

AND add the appropriate matching definition in /etc/smb.conf

AND do something this regularly (doing a tcpdump scan might be better):

    for borg in $(nmblookup '*' | gawk '{ print $1 }'); do
        nmblookup -A $borg >>borgscan-$borg.log
    done

...will the files borgscan-*.log occasionally contain details from any
randomly-dispersed DHCP-addicted Win2k machines?

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