How to get NetBIOS name from IP

Question

My friend has a PC that uses Windows, and I want to know the name of that computer. All I know now is that his IP address is 10.0.0.2, how can I get his computer's name from my Linux box?

score 6 · Answer 1 · answered Nov 28 '14 at 11:58

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How about:

nmblookup -A 10.0.0.2

and then a grep ?

answered Nov 28 '14 at 11:58

DaLynX

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Anyone knows where I can find proper interpretation of that output (what each column is for)? – ychaouche Nov 30 '22 at 09:55
Oh, [nm](https://superuser.com/a/710355/44391) – ychaouche Nov 30 '22 at 10:23

score 0 · Answer 2 · answered Nov 30 '22 at 10:23

Building on the answer provided by @DaLynX, you could have :

function net.ip.netbios.lookup {
    nmblookup -A "$1" | 
    awk 'NR>1 && $1 !~ /MAC/ && $1 && $1 !~ /__MSBROWSE__/ {print $1}' | 
    sort -u
}

Which takes you from this

$ nmblookup 192.168.211.86
Looking up status of 192.168.211.86
        ITSNOWY         <00> -         B <ACTIVE>
        WORKGROUP       <00> - <GROUP> B <ACTIVE>
        ITSNOWY         <20> -         B <ACTIVE>
        WORKGROUP       <1e> - <GROUP> B <ACTIVE>
        WORKGROUP       <1d> -         B <ACTIVE>
        ..__MSBROWSE__. <01> - <GROUP> B <ACTIVE>

        MAC Address = 08-2E-5F-07-88-19

$

To this

$ net.ip.netbios.lookup 192.168.211.86
    ITSNOWY
    WORKGROUP
$

How to get NetBIOS name from IP

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