I work in a Windows environment, but run Ubuntu on my desktop. I am always on the look out for Linux utilities that replace the Windows bound ones. So far I’ve found a replacement for just about everything I need execpt PSExec, but today that is no more.

sudo apt-get install wmi-client

This handy package installs winexe [...]

Here is a shell script I wrote to translate NetBOIS names to IP addresses. SAMBA needs to be install for the nmblookup command. I work mostly on Linux / OS X but we are a Windows shop so I wrote this shell script to help convert hostnames to IP address for windows machines. Not every [...]