How To Install nbtscan on CentOS 8

nbtscan is Tool to gather NetBIOS info from Windows networks

Introduction

In this tutorial we learn how to install nbtscan on CentOS 8.

What is nbtscan

NBTscan is a program for scanning IP networks for NetBIOS name information. It sends a NetBIOS status query to each address in supplied range and lists received information in human readable form.

We can use yum or dnf to install nbtscan on CentOS 8. In this tutorial we discuss both methods but you only need to choose one of method to install nbtscan.

Install nbtscan on CentOS 8 Using dnf

Update yum database with dnf using the following command.

sudo dnf makecache --refresh

The output should look something like this:

CentOS Linux 8 - AppStream                                       43 kB/s | 4.3 kB     00:00    
CentOS Linux 8 - BaseOS                                          65 kB/s | 3.9 kB     00:00    
CentOS Linux 8 - ContinuousRelease                               43 kB/s | 3.0 kB     00:00    
CentOS Linux 8 - Extras                                          23 kB/s | 1.5 kB     00:00    
CentOS Linux 8 - FastTrack                                       40 kB/s | 3.0 kB     00:00    
CentOS Linux 8 - HighAvailability                                36 kB/s | 3.9 kB     00:00    
CentOS Linux 8 - Plus                                            24 kB/s | 1.5 kB     00:00    
CentOS Linux 8 - PowerTools                                      50 kB/s | 4.3 kB     00:00    
Extra Packages for Enterprise Linux Modular 8 - x86_64           13 kB/s | 9.2 kB     00:00    
Extra Packages for Enterprise Linux 8 - x86_64                   24 kB/s | 8.5 kB     00:00    
Metadata cache created.

After updating yum database, We can install nbtscan using dnf by running the following command:

sudo dnf -y install nbtscan

Install nbtscan on CentOS 8 Using yum

Update yum database with yum using the following command.

sudo yum makecache --refresh

The output should look something like this:

CentOS Linux 8 - AppStream                                       43 kB/s | 4.3 kB     00:00    
CentOS Linux 8 - BaseOS                                          65 kB/s | 3.9 kB     00:00    
CentOS Linux 8 - ContinuousRelease                               43 kB/s | 3.0 kB     00:00    
CentOS Linux 8 - Extras                                          23 kB/s | 1.5 kB     00:00    
CentOS Linux 8 - FastTrack                                       40 kB/s | 3.0 kB     00:00    
CentOS Linux 8 - HighAvailability                                36 kB/s | 3.9 kB     00:00    
CentOS Linux 8 - Plus                                            24 kB/s | 1.5 kB     00:00    
CentOS Linux 8 - PowerTools                                      50 kB/s | 4.3 kB     00:00    
Extra Packages for Enterprise Linux Modular 8 - x86_64           13 kB/s | 9.2 kB     00:00    
Extra Packages for Enterprise Linux 8 - x86_64                   24 kB/s | 8.5 kB     00:00    
Metadata cache created.

After updating yum database, We can install nbtscan using yum by running the following command:

sudo yum -y install nbtscan

How To Uninstall nbtscan on CentOS 8

To uninstall only the nbtscan package we can use the following command:

sudo dnf remove nbtscan

nbtscan Package Contents on CentOS 8

/usr/bin/nbtscan
/usr/lib/.build-id
/usr/lib/.build-id/14
/usr/lib/.build-id/14/0e02e707ac55ce0bdf7b4e8270eb8832167e23
/usr/share/doc/nbtscan
/usr/share/doc/nbtscan/COPYING
/usr/share/doc/nbtscan/ChangeLog
/usr/share/doc/nbtscan/README

References

Summary

In this tutorial we learn how to install nbtscan on CentOS 8 using yum and dnf.