Network: Samba: Dos/Windows commands
(last edit: 2001-03-18)
                   There are a few tools in windows which you can use to get some information about your smb 
network. Below are examples of 'nbtstat' and 'net view'. If you want to see the available
options type 'nbtstat' or 'net' and the available options will be printed on your screen.

As you can see the server 'biggie' has the '..__MSBROWSE__.' line which means that he is 
the local master browser. The workstation 'packardhell' doesn't has this line.

examples:

C:\>nbtstat -a biggie

       NetBIOS Remote Machine Name Table

   Name               Type         Status
---------------------------------------------
BIGGIE         <00>  UNIQUE      Registered
BIGGIE         <03>  UNIQUE      Registered
BIGGIE         <20>  UNIQUE      Registered
..__MSBROWSE__.<01>  GROUP       Registered
TOYS           <00>  GROUP       Registered
TOYS           <1D>  UNIQUE      Registered
TOYS           <1E>  GROUP       Registered

MAC Address = [my mac address]

C:\>nbtstat -a packardhell

       NetBIOS Remote Machine Name Table

   Name               Type         Status
---------------------------------------------
PACKARDHELL    <00>  UNIQUE      Registered
TOYS           <00>  GROUP       Registered
PACKARDHELL    <03>  UNIQUE      Registered
PACKARDHELL    <20>  UNIQUE      Registered
TOYS           <1E>  GROUP       Registered
PBLAPTOP       <03>  UNIQUE      Registered

MAC Address = [my mac address]

c:\>net view

Servers available in workgroup TOYS.
Server name            Remark
--------------------------------------
\\BIGGIE               Samba server
\\PACKARDHELL          pb laptop
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