I'm trying to come up with a good regular expression to match any allowed NetBIOS system name in the output of the "nbtstat -A <ipaddress>" command, or the corresponding "nmblookup -A <ipaddress>" on ...

I want to be able to arbitrarily ping a Windows computer using its NetBIOS name. (Windows hostname.)<BR><BR>In Linux, all I had to do was install winbind, then edit /etc/nsswitch.conf and add "wins" ...