How To Install nmbscan on CentOS 7
Introduction
In this tutorial we learn how to install nmbscan on CentOS 7.
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 CentOS 7. In this tutorial we discuss both methods but you only need to choose one of method to install nmbscan.
Install nmbscan on CentOS 7 Using yum
Update yum database with yum using the following command.
sudo yum makecache
After updating yum database, We can install nmbscan using yum by running the following command:
sudo yum -y install nmbscan
Install nmbscan on CentOS 7 Using dnf
If you don’t have dnf installed you can install DNF on CentOS 7 first.
Update yum database with dnf using the following command.
sudo dnf makecache
After updating yum database, We can install nmbscan using dnf by running the following command:
sudo dnf -y install nmbscan
How To Uninstall nmbscan on CentOS 7
To uninstall only the nmbscan package we can use the following command:
sudo dnf remove nmbscan
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Summary
In this tutorial we learn how to install nmbscan on CentOS 7 using yum and dnf.
