Get the IP for NetBios name

Question

There is a mashine called "BIE" visible in my network surrounding of my dolphin File manager (Ubuntu 14.10).

I cannot access that device in dolphin and also don't get an answer pinging it.

How can I find out the IP of that device to do an intense scan with nmap?

score 4 · Answer 1 · edited Apr 13 '17 at 12:36

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The solution there: nmblookup <hostname>
So: nmblookup BIE

edited Apr 13 '17 at 12:36

Community

answered May 28 '15 at 01:50

Stephen

score -1 · Accepted Answer · answered May 28 '15 at 00:34

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You can install wireshark and start a scan on your network card.

Filter the result by "nbns" and you will see the IP in the upper window.

answered May 28 '15 at 00:34

rubo77

This is why tools like [nmblookup](https://www.samba.org/samba/docs/man/manpages/nmblookup.1.html) exist and may be easier to use than wireshark. – Bratchley May 28 '15 at 00:58
I tried `nmblookup` but it doesn't find all shares – rubo77 Jun 02 '15 at 11:24
because `nmblookup` is for resolving the hostname to an IP address. To list shares that host is providing you can use `smbclient`. `wireshark` likely wouldn't show you a full list of shares either unless you were already requesting it by some other means. – Bratchley Jun 02 '15 at 13:27
can you provide an example? – rubo77 Jun 02 '15 at 15:58
Not sure what you mean by example but `smbclient -L ` is what you'd use to enumerate the shares a server was providing. Syntax of the `nmblookup` command is posted in that other answer. – Bratchley Jun 02 '15 at 16:49
That's the problem: if you don't know the server, you cannot examine it with smbclient – rubo77 Jun 02 '15 at 17:02
If you know neither the server nor what share you're wanting to examine then I don't know if there's really a tool to help you short of using `nmap` or something to find servers listening on one of the SMB-related ports. – Bratchley Jun 02 '15 at 17:54
I only know the name "BIE" that shows up in my network. As I posted here in my answer: wireshark works perfectly well in this case. – rubo77 Jun 02 '15 at 18:30

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