Re: LUG: Find Computers - Mon, 07 Mar 2005 13:17:45 -0500

Subject : Re: LUG: Find Computers

From : Michael Lee <melee3@ncsu.[redacted]>

Date : Mon, 07 Mar 2005 13:17:45 -0500

Josh Hunholz wrote:
> I'm not sure what you mean, but I'm guessing you are talking about Network
> Neighborhood in Windows? There's not really anything similar that I know
> of anyway, but there may be some projects on freshmeat.net that will do
> what you want. Check there first.
>
> Josh Hunholz
>
>
>>Is there a way in Linux to find computers like you can in Windows using
>>search?

If you are talking about Network Neighborhood, then you can check out
Komba (http://komba.sourceforge.net). This queries each machine for the
Samba shares it has. If I recall correct, you give Komba an IP range,
and it will find all computers on that network that have SMB shares. It
will even find those who aren't "officially" there (according to the
WINS servers).

WARNING: Since it queries each machine, be very careful on which
networks you use this on. Some network administrators will detect the
large number of NetBIOS calls and think it is a windows virus (this
happened at my past university and they shut off my network port).

Hope that helped.
--

Michael Lee

Electrical & Computer Engineering
NC State University
melee3@ncsu.[redacted]