RE: {bb} Testing SMB/NetBIOS server on NT remotely

["Ian McGowan" <ian@trinitycapital.com>]

you could use smbclient to transfer a file, or retrieve a list
of shares.  it seems to set it's return value appropriately.

> -----Original Message-----
> From: owner-bb@bb4.com [mailto:owner-bb@bb4.com]On Behalf Of Andy
> Farrior
> Sent: Thursday, September 30, 1999 6:58 AM
> To: bb@bb4.com
> Subject: {bb} Testing SMB/NetBIOS server on NT remotely
> 
> 
> 
> Does anyone have an external script that can check to see if 
> a Windows NT
> server is responding to NetBIOS requests?
> 
> I have an NT server that occasionaly ceases to allow users to 
> browse or
> connect to shares on it.  However, the server still responds 
> to pings; so
> BB thinks that it's up.
> 
> Unless I've misconfigured BB for NT, the NT client doesn't 
> alert me when
> the server can no longer receive NetBIOS requests.  The service hasn't
> died, it's just not responding.
> 
> Since user complaints to us are "I can't connect to the 
> server," I'd like
> to periodically test connections to the server from a UNIX box.
> 
> Does anyone have anything close, or do I need to roll my own.
> 
> Thanks,
> Andy
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