search a computer knowing his IP

[Amedee Van Gasse (ub)]

On Wed, December 23, 2009 09:16, khobbos khobbos wrote:
>
> Dear sir

I'm pretty sure that:
1) there is more than one person reading your email
2) there are women too

> How can i search a computer knowing his IP in my local area network?
>
> so i can access shared folder.
>
> i am using Ubuntu 9.10
>
>
> (shared folder on Ubuntu 9.10)
>
> I can access them under windows XP but from Ubuntu its not present on the
> network and i don't know how to search by computer IP)

I assume that you want to share using the "windows" method, iow Samba.
This YouTube video shows you how:
http://youtu.be/89hjWOb8qmY
(it's for Ubuntu 9.04 but Ubuntu 9.10 is almost identical)

Just substitute the hostname with the IP address.

-- 
Amedee