Nbtstat problem

[Agent_Steal]

Whenever I try to use Nbtstat will the following command switches [ -an ] it gives me the following message
"no names in cache"
I was wondering can anyone explain to me what this means and how I can fix this.
I am running Windows 98 on my computer.
Any help would be really appreciated.

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[Lansing_Banda]

try typing nbtstat -R to reload the list.

[Mephisto]

while we are on the subject of nbtstat..

does anyone know a nbtstat-like command/app for *nix?

[skiddieleet]

nmblookup does pretty much the same thing on nix. take a look at this:
http://www.antionline.com/showthread...hreadid=228798
as for the original question, try nbtstat -A ipaddress
nbtstat -a if used with names and -A is used with ip addy's.
hope this helped.

[SirDice]

Originally posted here by h3r3tic
nmblookup does pretty much the same thing on nix. take a look at this:
http://www.antionline.com/showthread...hreadid=228798
as for the original question, try nbtstat -A ipaddress
nbtstat -a if used with names and -A is used with ip addy's.
hope this helped.

The help says to use -a for names and -A for ip addresses but I know for a fact that it will work either way (atleast on NT4).

[Agent_Steal]

I reloaded my cache again. But when I issued the same switches again.
I still tells me the same thing again. Does anyone know of another program that I can download that will do the same thing Nbtstat or maybe even more??

[skiddieleet]

You should take off the -n. That provides the local machines information. See for yourself by typing nbtstat -n.
try this: Ping the machine name you are trying nbtstat on, this should give you the ip. Then just use nbtstat -A ipaddress and don't worry about names. Or you can just type this in the run thing at Start>Run:
\\ipaddress
or try
\\computername
And if they have shares it will display all of them. But just try it with the ip and -A option maybe that will work, or just skip nbtstat and use the start>run thing from above.
Good luck.

[Tedob1]

its not going to be in the cache if you havn't been connected to it lately.

you have to do like h3r3tic says, ping it to make a connection

[Agent_Steal]

Thanks h3r3tic it finally worked. I actually never thought of trying that.