Samba: resolve NETBIOS => IP

LucaMartinetti · n00b Joined: 23 Jan 2003 Posts: 44 Location: Rome [IT]

I've a small home network with 2 pc (one as a download server running gentoo and the other dualboot WinXp / gentoo) and samba running fine. ;-)

The IP addresses of my machines are assigned dynamicaly by the DHCP server of my ISP.
So, is there an utility to translate the NETBIOS name of the samba server to his IP address?
It will be good to use this in boot scripts to adjust some config files and bookmarks.. thank you!
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tgoodaire · Posted: Sat Mar 15, 2003 12:03 am Post subject: Hmm.

I'm not 100% sure what you need to do this for (is it a problem mounting smb shares on boot?), but the output of

LucaMartinetti · n00b Joined: 23 Jan 2003 Posts: 44 Location: Rome [IT]

No, I can mount samba partition with no problem.. I just need the ip address of the server for mldonkey_gui.. and I'm looking for a way to automate that

thank you
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