Wednesday, June 24, 2009

Getting IP address from computer name using samba

If you know the name of a computer from your network and want to know the IP address of it using samba (if you're using Linux or UNIX-based OS), issue this command:

nmblookup -I computername

Have fun!

3 comments:

anu said...

I am using windows only not as linux. So i will get the ip address from ip details but this will helpful for my laptop> In my laptop i am using linux. thanks for this information

zamri said...

ur welcome. :)

turtlevert said...

I Googled "get ip address of samba client" and it led me here right to the solution! Thanks for posting this.