NMBSTATUS(1)

🌸 nmbstatus(1) — the Perl one, bestie 🌸

okay so real talk: this is nmbstatus from the User Contributed Perl Documentation section of your manual, and she is here to spill all the tea about what's living on your UDP network 💅

✨ NAME ✨

nmbstatus — literally lists the NMB node status of a UDP network 🦋

✨ SYNOPSIS ✨

nmbstatus [options]

Options: --workgroup --pdc --bdc --lmb --dmb --members --quiet
--allworkgroups --winsserver --print0 --debug --help --man

no cap, that's the whole vibe check right there ⭐

🎀 GENERAL OPTIONS 🎀

• --help — prints a brief help message and exits. (the page says "Prints a help message" too, so like… yes, that 💖)
• --man — prints the manual page and exits. iconic behavior honestly 👑
• --print0 — uses '\0' as the separator between output instead of a tab stop. great for when tabs are simply not the moment 🙈
• --debug — use a debuglevel. and that's it, because there is no debuglevel available yet. yes i know. we wait 🫶

🦋 GENERAL ARGUMENTS 🦋

• --workgroup — does all the actions on this workgroup name. if you don't set a workgroup, you get the info off all available groups 🌈
• --pdc — if it's not called in conjunction with --quiet, prints a line starting with the acronym PDC, then the separator, then the netbios name of the PDC — if one is available. if not, it prints nothing and returns with 1 😭
• --bdc — same deal: not with --quiet? it prints a line with the acronym BDC, the separator, and the netbios name of the BDC if one's available. if not, nothing prints and it returns with 1 💀
• --dmb — yup, same energy: with no --quiet it prints the acronym DMB, the separator, and the netbios name of the DMB if one is available. otherwise nothing, and it returns with 1 🙈
• --lmb — you already know the pattern, bestie: not with --quiet → prints the acronym LMB, the separator, and the netbios name of the LMB if one is available. if not, nothing, and it returns with 1 💅
• --members — if it's not called in conjunction with --quiet, prints a line starting with the word MEMBERS, then the separator, then the netbios names of the workgroup members. if not, prints nothing and returns with 1 🍓
• --quiet — prints absolutely no information, zero, nada. just returns with 0 if a type — pdc, lmb, dmb, or members — was found. else it returns 1 🤫
• --allworkgroups — lists all available workgroups. that's her whole job ⭐
• --winsserver — uses this WINS server to gather the information 🔥

💜 DESCRIPTION 💜

nmbstatus will detect workgroups, PDCs, BDCs, DMBs, LMBs, and Members of workgroups in your network. she's thorough like that 🧚

and here's a little detail that matters: if more than one type is specizied but only one result found, nmbstatus nevertheless returns 0. (yes, "specizied" — that's the original's spelling, i don't make the rules 😭). so don't come for her about the multiple-types thing, she said what she said 🌸

🫶 AUTHOR 🫶

Lars Mueller <lmuelle@suse.de>

and if you find any errors in the code, please let him know. he literally asked 💖

👑 COPYRIGHT 👑

Copyright (c) 2003-2004 SuSE Linux AG. All rights reserved.

This program is free software; you can redistribute it and/or modify it under the same terms as Perl itself. slay, licensing-wise 🌈

and that's the whole page, bestie 💅 this lovely little manual came from perl v5.42.0, dated 2026-08-21 — mwah, go detect some workgroups 🎀✨