Information about the package, nmbscan, which is shipped with common Linux distributions. The nmbscan package is designed for, NMB/SMB network scanner.
Package Name:
nmbscan
Summary:
NMB/SMB network scanner
Description:
Scans a SMB shares network, using NMB and SMB protocols. Useful to acquire an information on a local area network (security audit, etc.) Matches the information such as NMB/SMB/Windows host name, IP address, IP host name, Ethernet MAC address, Windows user name, NMB/SMB/Windows domain name and master browser. Can discover all NMB/SMB/Windows hosts on a local area network thanks to hosts lists maintained by master browsers.
Architecture:
noarch
Version:
1.2.6
Release:
9.el6
Size:
15 k
Repository:
epel
From Repository:
Licence:
GPLv2
Control the nmbscan package with the following handy commands outlined below.
yum install nmbscan
This command will install nmbscan on the server.
yum remove nmbscan
This command will un-install nmbscan on the server. When you run this command, you will be asked if you are sure that you want to remove nmbscan, so you have to manually confirm that you want to do this.
yum -y remove nmbscan
This command will un-install nmbscan on the server. When you run this command with th e -y flag, you will not be prompted to check that you are sure you want to remove the package - so be sure you absolutely want to remove nmbscan when using the -y flag.
yum update nmbscan
This command will update nmbscan to the latest version. When you run this command, you will be asked if you are sure that you want to remove nmbscan, so you have to manually confirm that you want to do this.
yum -y update nmbscan
This command will update nmbscan to the latest version. When you run this command with the -y flag, you will not be prompted to check that you are sure you want to remove the package - so be sure you absolutely want to remove nmbscan when using the -y flag.
yum info nmbscan
This command will show you core information about the nmbscan package.
yum deplist nmbscan
This command will show you the dependencies for nmbscan. Thankfully, when using Yum, if dependencies are required, these are also installed at the same time so you don't have to worry too much about that.
yum check-update nmbscan
This command will check if there is an update waiting on nmbscan. When you run this command this will return nothing if there is nothing to update, or, will return the package name if the package is due to be updated.