[ubuntu-za] Discover Ip's on Network

[Kevin Coetzee]

On Mon, 2009-03-23 at 08:12 +0200, Bruno Mondego wrote:
>  
>  
> That Samba server in a security level ranging from 0-10 its about a 3
> now...
>  
> im going to try one of those methods later on, and see if i can find
> out it's ip address...
>  
> gonna give feedback later on
>  
> many thanks
>  
> Bruno Marques
> Área Técnica
> TropicalWeb
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>         ----- Original Message ----- 
>         From: Charl Wentzel 
>         To: Ubuntu South African Local Community 
>         Sent: Friday, March 20, 2009 6:33 PM
>         Subject: Re: [ubuntu-za] Discover Ip's on Network
>         
>         
>         Now this is useful!  I never knew you could actually ping on
>         the broadcast address!  Thanks
>         
>         -----Original Message-----
>         From: Lee Sharp <leesharp at hal-pc.org>
>         Reply-To: Ubuntu South African Local Community
>         <ubuntu-za at lists.ubuntu.com>
>         To: Ubuntu South African Local Community
>         <ubuntu-za at lists.ubuntu.com>
>         Subject: Re: [ubuntu-za] Discover Ip's on Network
>         Date: Fri, 20 Mar 2009 09:04:27 -0500
>         
>         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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there is a handy little app for Windows.
http://www.angryziber.com/w/Home

which scans for nodes on a lan.
and with a few plugins it compares to nmap.


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