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@@ -3,15 +3,15 @@
.\" <http://shell.ipoline.com/~elmert/hacks/docbook2X/>
.\" Please send any bug reports, improvements, comments, patches,
.\" etc. to Steve Cheng <steve@ggi-project.org>.
-.TH "NMBLOOKUP" "1" "28 January 2002" "" ""
+.TH "NMBLOOKUP" "1" "28 August 2002" "" ""
.SH NAME
nmblookup \- NetBIOS over TCP/IP client used to lookup NetBIOS names
.SH SYNOPSIS
.sp
-\fBnmblookup\fR [ \fB-M\fR ] [ \fB-R\fR ] [ \fB-S\fR ] [ \fB-r\fR ] [ \fB-A\fR ] [ \fB-h\fR ] [ \fB-B <broadcast address>\fR ] [ \fB-U <unicast address>\fR ] [ \fB-d <debug level>\fR ] [ \fB-s <smb config file>\fR ] [ \fB-i <NetBIOS scope>\fR ] [ \fB-T\fR ] \fBname\fR
+\fBnmblookup\fR [ \fB-f\fR ] [ \fB-M\fR ] [ \fB-R\fR ] [ \fB-S\fR ] [ \fB-r\fR ] [ \fB-A\fR ] [ \fB-h\fR ] [ \fB-B <broadcast address>\fR ] [ \fB-U <unicast address>\fR ] [ \fB-d <debug level>\fR ] [ \fB-s <smb config file>\fR ] [ \fB-i <NetBIOS scope>\fR ] [ \fB-T\fR ] \fBname\fR
.SH "DESCRIPTION"
.PP
-This tool is part of the Sambasuite.
+This tool is part of the Samba suite.
.PP
\fBnmblookup\fR is used to query NetBIOS names
and map them to IP addresses in a network using NetBIOS over TCP/IP
@@ -20,6 +20,11 @@ particular IP broadcast area or to a particular machine. All queries
are done over UDP.
.SH "OPTIONS"
.TP
+\fB-f\fR
+Causes nmblookup to print out the flags
+in the NMB packet headers. These flags will print out as
+strings like Authoritative, Recursion_Desired, Recursion_available, etc.
+.TP
\fB-M\fR
Searches for a master browser by looking
up the NetBIOS name \fIname\fR with a
@@ -45,7 +50,7 @@ datagrams. The reason for this option is a bug in Windows 95
where it ignores the source port of the requesting packet
and only replies to UDP port 137. Unfortunately, on most UNIX
systems root privilege is needed to bind to this port, and
-in addition, if the nmbd(8)
+in addition, if the nmbd(8)
daemon is running on this machine it also binds to this port.
.TP
\fB-A\fR
@@ -60,7 +65,7 @@ Send the query to the given broadcast address. Without
this option the default behavior of nmblookup is to send the
query to the broadcast address of the network interfaces as
either auto-detected or defined in the \fIinterfaces\fR
-parameter of the \fIsmb.conf (5)\fR file.
+ parameter of the \fIsmb.conf (5)\fR file.
.TP
\fB-U <unicast address>\fR
Do a unicast query to the specified address or
@@ -84,11 +89,11 @@ Levels above 3 are designed for use only by developers and
generate HUGE amounts of data, most of which is extremely cryptic.
Note that specifying this parameter here will override
-the \fI log level\fRparameter in the \fI smb.conf(5)\fR file.
+the \fI log level\fR parameter in the \fI smb.conf(5)\fR file.
.TP
\fB-s <smb.conf>\fR
This parameter specifies the pathname to
-the Samba configuration file, smb.conf(5). This file controls all aspects of
+the Samba configuration file, smb.conf(5) This file controls all aspects of
the Samba setup on the machine.
.TP
\fB-i <scope>\fR
@@ -137,8 +142,8 @@ This man page is correct for version 2.2 of
the Samba suite.
.SH "SEE ALSO"
.PP
-\fBnmbd(8)\fR,
-samba(7)
+\fBnmbd(8)\fR
+samba(7) and smb.conf(5)
.SH "AUTHOR"
.PP
The original Samba software and related utilities