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how to browse the LAN for active hosts...to access their shares

 
vnykr
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how to browse the LAN for active hosts...to access their shares

is lisp daemon the solution?
i could not found that in fc3..
correctly i donno the solution ..pls give me an idea to proceed furthur..

thanQ very much
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Ivan Ferreira
Honored Contributor

Re: how to browse the LAN for active hosts...to access their shares

What kind of services are provided by the hosts, are windows shares (SAMBA), Unix shares, NFS?

GNOME provides network browsing, but it's recommended to update your version, maybe to FC5 that has major enhancements.
Por que hacerlo dificil si es posible hacerlo facil? - Why do it the hard way, when you can do it the easy way?
vnykr
Advisor

Re: how to browse the LAN for active hosts...to access their shares

hi..
i have to see the details of every system in my LAN.. some may be using samba shares ..and some may be using windows NFS shares.

in windows we have "net scanner " software to list all the active systems in LAN.like that do v have any solution in linux??
Ivan Ferreira
Honored Contributor

Re: how to browse the LAN for active hosts...to access their shares

For browsing your network, you can use Gnome Nautilus as previously described, what you can do with nautilus is described here:

http://www.gnome.org/learn/users-guide/2.6/ch07s08.html

By googling for net scanner, it looks that it's a host/port scanner. For that, you can use nmap and it's GUI.

http://insecure.org/nmap/
Por que hacerlo dificil si es posible hacerlo facil? - Why do it the hard way, when you can do it the easy way?
vnykr
Advisor

Re: how to browse the LAN for active hosts...to access their shares

hi
i will try dis and let u know the results
thanx alot..
g33k
Valued Contributor

Re: how to browse the LAN for active hosts...to access their shares

ivan is rigth the fastest and easiest solutin is nmap and let it scan, all host in network(beaware of pings, nmap in defualt first ping the host and if it replays it will perform the scan, but however this ping function can be turn off) and only on those port which are used by smb and NFS.

so if your LAN is let's say 192.168.20.0/27
on linux maschine you will use this

nmap -sS -p 137,138,139,2049 192.168.20.0/27

(for remove ping use argument -P0)
vnykr
Advisor

Re: how to browse the LAN for active hosts...to access their shares

i have upgraded to fc5 in which network serivice included network browsing..
thaks all for giving their valuable suggestions


vnykr