Backing Up A Netbios Name Table; Restoring A Netbios Name Table - IBM TotalStorage NAS Gateway 500 Administrator's Manual

1. Use the smit cifs command.
2. Select NBNS.
3. Select Delete by Address and by Name.

Backing up a NetBIOS Name table

You can back up the information in the name table to a file. The default file is
/etc/cifs/nbns.names. This file is in a form that can be used to restore names. If you
want to change the default file name, specify a fully qualified file name with the
path.
1. Use the smit cifs command.
2. Select NBNS.
3. Select Back up NetBIOS Name Table to a File.

Restoring a NetBIOS Name table

You can restore the information in the name table to a previous state using the
/etc/cifs/nbns.names default backup file or another backup file. You must specify the
backup file name as a fully qualified file name with the path.
1. Use the smit cifs command.
2. Select NBNS.
3. Select Restore a NetBIOS Name Table from Back up File.
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