How to find IP address of a machine on network?
Chris G
cl at isbd.net
Fri Jan 16 18:46:39 UTC 2009
On Fri, Jan 16, 2009 at 11:34:11AM -0600, Wade Smart wrote:
> Chris G wrote:
> > I have just installed ubuntu onto a machine and have connected it to
> > my LAN. The router provides DHCP and the new machine is up and
> > running on the network.
> >
> > How do I connect *to* the machine? I need to know its IP address and,
> > as there are a few devices which get their address by DHCP it's not at
> > all obvious what the machine's address is.
> >
> > Eventually I will probably give it a fixed address (for this reason
> > among others).
> >
>
> 20090116 1133 GMT-5
>
> System > Network Toos > Devices Tab, select eth0 and it will tell you
> the ip of that machine.
>
OK, thanks, not much use from the other end though is it!
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Chris Green
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