[xkidmidnightx]

hi! im pretty new to macs (just got my ibook 2 weeks ago) and have a couple of questions regarding networking. Ive learned that using browse from the finder tends to crash it or do other crazy stuff when looking for windows shares. I also cant unmount shares when i enter them that way, so ive been using the connect to server method which is much more stable.

My problem is finding shares on a network when i dont know the smb addresses of the computers. I could use browse, but that locks up the finder and i think it only sees shares that are in the same workgroup as my comp.

So my question is, how or what commands do you use in the terminal to find the ip addresses of all the computers in a network?

i know nmblookup -m WORKGROUP but that only shows the comps in the workgroup your a member of. findsmb also only finds comps in your workgroup. i either need a command that finds what the name of the workgroup the comps are on or what their ip is!

thanks in advance!

[Johnny_B]

I love smb threads. I thought about posting this myself, but the interessert seems rather dead

Well, this is what I did, and this works great here for finding workstations.

smbtree -NSb

Then I also added this to my .tcshrc (I'm on 10.3, but don't like Bash).

alias smb 'smbtree -NSb'

Then I only need to type 'smb' in the Terminal, and everything is revealed. Atleast I have had great success with this.