[afnog] how to identify NetBIOS information using linux

[Noah Sematimba]

On Wednesday 18 May 2005 23:09, Scott Weeks wrote:
> On Wed, 18 May 2005, Sergio Carrilho wrote:
> : Hi all,
> : I have a machine on a remote network which has  a virus flooding the
> : link. The NAT machine in that site is a linux box (the LAN accesses the
> : internet via that box) under my control. I've identified the IP of the
> : machine which has the virus, but I want to have access to the NetBIOS
> : information of the machine so I can know exactly which machine it is and
> : to whom it belongs in order to remove the virus.
> :
> : So the question is: How to use the remote NAT linux box to get the
> : NetBIOS information of a certain IP?

You could also just run ntop on the linux box. It usually gathers all this 
information for you nicely.


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Noah.
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