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NAME

       nbtscan —  program for scanning networks for NetBIOS name information

SYNOPSIS

       nbtscan  [-v]   [-d]   [-e]   [-l]   [-t timeout]  [-b bandwidth]  [-r]
       [-q]   [-s  separator]   [-h]   [-m  retransmits]    [-f   filename   |
       scan_range]

DESCRIPTION

       This manual page documents briefly the nbtscan command.

       This  manual  page  was  written  for the Debian GNU/Linux distribution
       because the original program does not have a manual page.

       nbtscan is  a  program  for  scanning  IP  networks  for  NetBIOS  name
       information.  It sends NetBIOS status query to each address in supplied
       range and lists received information in human readable form.  For  each
       responded  host  it  lists IP address, NetBIOS computer name, logged-in
       user name and MAC address (such as Ethernet).

OPTIONS

       A summary of options is included below.

       -v        Verbose output. Print all names received from each host.

       -d        Dump packets. Print whole packet  contents.  Cannot  be  used
                 with -v, -s or -h options.

       -e        Format output in /etc/hosts format.

       -l        Format  output  in lmhosts format. Cannot be used with -v, -s
                 or -h options.

       -t timeout
                 Wait timeout seconds for response. Default 1.

       -b bandwidth
                 Output throttling. Slow down output so that it uses  no  more
                 that  bandwidth  bps.   Useful on slow links, so that ougoing
                 queries don’t get dropped.

       -r        Use local port 137 for scans. Win95  boxes  respond  to  this
                 only.  You need to be root to use this option.

       -q        Suppress banners and error messages.

       -s separator
                 Script-friendly   output.   Don’t  print  column  and  record
                 headers, separate fields with separator.

       -h        Print human-readble names for services.   Can  only  be  used
                 with -v option.

       -m retransmits
                 Number of retransmits. Default 0.

       -f filename
                 Take IP addresses to scan from file "filename"

       scan_range
                 What  to  scan.  Can  either be single IP like 192.168.1.1 or
                 range of addresses in one of two forms: xxx.xxx.xxx.xxx/xx or
                 xxx.xxx.xxx.xxx-xxx.

BUGS

       Report  bugs  to  alla@sovlink.ru  (that’s  autor of nbtscan). I cannot
       promise to do anything but I might  well  want  fix  it.  Remember:  no
       warranty.  At least it’s worth what you payed for it.

AUTHOR

       This  manual  page  was  written by Ryszard Lach rla@debian.org for the
       Debian GNU/Linux system (but may be used by others)  and  is  based  on
       nbtscan   author’s   README  file.   Permission  is  granted  to  copy,
       distribute and/or modify this document under the terms of the GNU  Free
       Documentation  License,  Version  1.1 or any later version published by
       the Free Software Foundation.