nbnsd

Simple NetBIOS responder for Linux. Makes your device reachable by name from any Windows Host. Based on http://www.mostang.com/~davidm/nbnsd/

Contains simple installer for Raspbian.

Downloads

You can download prebuild binaries on the releases page.

Quick install

# on arm
wget https://github.com/cfstras/nbnsd/releases/download/v1.1/nbnsd.arm -O /usr/bin/nbnsd
chmod a+x /usr/bin/nbnsd
wget https://raw.githubusercontent.com/cfstras/nbnsd/master/nbnsd.service -O /etc/systemd/system/nbnsd.service
systemctl daemon-reload
systemctl enable --now nbnsd

Build & install

Setup with compile:

make
sudo make install   # installs systemd service
systemctl enable nbnsd.service
systemctl start nbnsd.service

You might want to modify the service file -- the packaged one adds a fallback hostname using the CPU serial number as found in /proc/cpuinfo on many SoC boards such as Raspberry Pis.

You can remove the ExecStartPre= line, and the -m -n "${MACHINE_HOST}" arguments.

Tips

If you want to enable NetBIOS-resolving on your Linux box, follow these steps:

install smbclient and samba
in /etc/nsswitch.conf, add wins to the hosts line.
in /etc/samba/smbd.conf, uncomment the line name resolve order = wins lmhosts bcast
enable and start winbindd, smbd, and nmbd.

License

MIT

cfstras / nbnsd