How To Install nmbscan on Fedora 34

nmbscan is NMB/SMB network scanner

Introduction

In this tutorial we learn how to install nmbscan on Fedora 34.

What is nmbscan

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.

We can use yum or dnf to install nmbscan on Fedora 34. In this tutorial we discuss both methods but you only need to choose one of method to install nmbscan.

Install nmbscan on Fedora 34 Using dnf

Update yum database with dnf using the following command.

sudo dnf makecache --refresh

The output should look something like this:

Fedora 34 - x86_64                               20 kB/s | 6.6 kB     00:00
Fedora 34 openh264 (From Cisco) - x86_64        1.4 kB/s | 989  B     00:00
Fedora Modular 34 - x86_64                       68 kB/s | 6.5 kB     00:00
Fedora 34 - x86_64 - Updates                    3.5 kB/s | 6.2 kB     00:01
Fedora Modular 34 - x86_64 - Updates             17 kB/s | 5.9 kB     00:00
Metadata cache created.

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

sudo dnf -y install nmbscan

Install nmbscan on Fedora 34 Using yum

Update yum database with yum using the following command.

sudo yum makecache --refresh

The output should look something like this:

Fedora 34 - x86_64                               20 kB/s | 6.6 kB     00:00
Fedora 34 openh264 (From Cisco) - x86_64        1.4 kB/s | 989  B     00:00
Fedora Modular 34 - x86_64                       68 kB/s | 6.5 kB     00:00
Fedora 34 - x86_64 - Updates                    3.5 kB/s | 6.2 kB     00:01
Fedora Modular 34 - x86_64 - Updates             17 kB/s | 5.9 kB     00:00
Metadata cache created.

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

sudo yum -y install nmbscan

How To Uninstall nmbscan on Fedora 34

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

sudo dnf remove nmbscan

nmbscan Package Contents on Fedora 34

/usr/bin/nmbscan
/usr/share/doc/nmbscan
/usr/share/doc/nmbscan/HOWTO_contribute.txt
/usr/share/licenses/nmbscan
/usr/share/licenses/nmbscan/gplv2.txt
/usr/share/man/man1/nmbscan.1.gz

References

Summary

In this tutorial we learn how to install nmbscan on Fedora 34 using yum and dnf.