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!
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4 comments:

  1. anuJune 24, 2009 at 12:41 PM

    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

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  2. ZamriJune 24, 2009 at 4:47 PM

    ur welcome. :)

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  3. AnonymousOctober 9, 2011 at 1:04 AM

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

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  4. sivanandaFebruary 10, 2014 at 4:19 PM

    thanks for your post saved lot of my time

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