[ubuntu-za] Discover Ip's on Network
Lee Sharp
leesharp at hal-pc.org
Fri Mar 20 14:04:27 GMT 2009
Bruno Mondego wrote:
> hello all
>
> i've managed to put up a running samba server on a company far from where im
> living (in another province)
>
> but, some it of theirs was fiddling with the servers and somehow changed the
> ip of the samba server
>
> i usually accessed it via putty, but now i cant, cause i dont know the ip of
> the samba server on their network..
>
> i do have access to the other windows xp pcs on the network though,
>
> is there any tool i can use, to know what ips i have running on my LAN so
> that i can identify wich of them is the server? its not a big network, only
> less than 10 pc's running there.
> and if it does exist, can i run it from windows, since its the only os i can
> use there from where i am to access their network?
This will work for most operating systems.
1) Ping the broadcast IP address.
Linux - "ping 192.168.1.255 -b"
Windows - "ping 192.168.1.255"
2) Look at the arp table.
All OSs I have seen - "arp -a"
This will only work for IP addresses in your subnet.
Lee
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