Tomek,
So you know the netbios name of the machine you want to access, but not it's IP address. My suggestion would be to modify the /etc/nsswitch.conf file on whichever machine you need to VNC from.
Find the line containing "hosts: files,dns" (or something to that effect) and appends "wins" to that list, eg: "hosts: files,dns,wins"
Now your machine should resolve netbios names as well as IP addresses, so you could type: 'vncviewer SERWER:0' and be on your way.
this might work, but again, not in my case.
1) this network is separated from the others, that means that people that will VNC to these hosts don't use the same WINS/DNS - that's one problem (they can reach by IP only),
2) people that will VNC are rather windows technicians, helping with software etc. So they should enter a page: https://PDC/hosts - and then see list of hosts with corresponding IPs - after seeing that, they should know where to VNC.
So I guess I will stick with my WINS idea of parsing wins.dat file.
But smbclient -L --show-ips pdc > /var/www/html/hosts run from a cronjob would be so much easier - I will probably spend an hour to figure out how to parse wins.dat file to remove unnecessary stuff.
Well, one hour is about what I spent writing on this topic to the list anyway :))
There's also the nmblookup tool, which might be easier to use if you
don't have root access to modify nsswitch.conf.
p.s.: first post to this list, hope I followed the correct etiquette.
you should quote below the post / appropriate sentences etc. :)
Tomek
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