Re: How to view Linux machines on the network?

> I have setup 5 machines with RedHat 8.0. These machines are dual boot
> machines with Win2K. I know how to configure samba server and with
> that i was able to view linux machines on the windows computers. But
> how can i view the Linux machines from Linux machines.

To what degree do you want to 'view the Linux machines?'

If this is your own network, you can do:
nmap -sP 192.168.0.0/24

That's provided the private network is 192.168.0.*. Adjust mask as
necessary.

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Jem Berkes
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Jem Berkes <jb@users.pc9.org> wrote in
news:Xns93A45976E79B5jbuserspc9org@205.200.16.73:

> If this is your own network, you can do:
> nmap -sP 192.168.0.0/24
>
> That's provided the private network is 192.168.0.*. Adjust mask as
> necessary.

Hey Jem,

I just tried that on my machine and this is what I got:

Starting nmap 3.20 ( www.insecure.org/nmap/ ) at 2003-06-25 22:16 EDT
Host host1-null.null.bellsouth.net (192.168.0.1) appears to be up.
Host cindy (192.168.0.2) appears to be up.
Host missy (192.168.0.3) appears to be up.
Nmap run completed -- 256 IP addresses (3 hosts up) scanned in 20.819
seconds
[root@ohmster X11]# hostname
ohmster

My hostname is ohmster. How come it does not show up as such? (missy and
cindy are XP machines.)

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~Ohmster

In article <Xns93A5E3B60E9D1ohmsternewsguycom@65.82.44.187> , Ohmster wrote:
> Jem Berkes <jb@users.pc9.org> wrote in
> news:Xns93A45976E79B5jbuserspc9org@205.200.16.73:
>
>> If this is your own network, you can do:
>> nmap -sP 192.168.0.0/24
>>
>> That's provided the private network is 192.168.0.*. Adjust mask as
>> necessary.
>
> Hey Jem,
>
> I just tried that on my machine and this is what I got:
>
> Starting nmap 3.20 ( www.insecure.org/nmap/ ) at 2003-06-25 22:16 EDT
> Host host1-null.null.bellsouth.net (192.168.0.1) appears to be up.
> Host cindy (192.168.0.2) appears to be up.
> Host missy (192.168.0.3) appears to be up.
> Nmap run completed -- 256 IP addresses (3 hosts up) scanned in 20.819
> seconds
> [root@ohmster X11]# hostname
> ohmster
>
> My hostname is ohmster. How come it does not show up as such? (missy and
> cindy are XP machines.)

On a random guess, I'd say you have 192.168.0.1 mapped to
host1-null.null.bellsouth.net in your /etc/hosts file.



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Seth H Holmes

Seth H Holmes <sholmes@dweezil.NOSPAMFORMEroute-fu.net> wrote in
news:slrnbfml2l.nbn.sholmes@dweezil.route-fu.net:

> On a random guess, I'd say you have 192.168.0.1 mapped to
> host1-null.null.bellsouth.net in your /etc/hosts file.

No, would've been a good guess but I really don't know where that came
from. DHCP is in effect for eth0 and my prompt used to be a variaion of
adsl.bellsouth.net though. <shrug>

Good tool anyway. :)

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~Ohmster