[ubuntu-za] Discover Ip's on Network

[Morgan Collett]

On Fri, Mar 20, 2009 at 16:04, Lee Sharp <leesharp at hal-pc.org> wrote:
> 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.

That finds my broadband router and my wireless access point. I'm not
sure it will find a samba server?

Regards
Morgan