Home Network Software Help
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The more computers you have connected to your home network, the bigger your need for good tools to manage that network. Recently, I had a need to discover the IP address for Ponzi’s machine, and asked the community if they knew of software I could use.
Wirelesspacket told me immediately about a program he uses from Softpedia called Network Scanner. This is a free tool, which is an excellent ’selling’ point for me.
I needed to find out the IP address of Ponzi’s machine so I could connect to it via VNC. This tool got all the information for me quickly and easily. I just had to open it, input a range of IP addresses, and click the “start scanning” button. Shortly, an excellent list of all the machines on my network was displayed before me. Not only did I get the IP address I needed, this tool also can show me much more:
- Detects hardware (MAC) addresses
- Detects hidden shared folders (normally invisible on the network) and write accessible shares
- Detects your internal and external IP addresses
- Scans for listening TCP ports and SNMP services
The only drawback to this tool is that it is only Windows compatible. If there is an equivalent that you know of which works on OS X, I’d love to know about it.
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17 Comments
mysoftwareonline.com
October 18th, 2007
at 10:03pm
I had a need to discover the IP address for Ponzi’s machine, and asked the community if they knew of software I could use. Wirelesspacket told me immediately about a program he uses from Softpedia called Network Scanner. … Original post byChris
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July 12th, 2008
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Mcnair2heap
October 18th, 2007
at 12:13pm
1st!!!
Mcnair2heap
October 18th, 2007
at 12:14pm
My home network was sooo screwed up at first, its frustrating to set all of that up, great video!
willteddy09
October 18th, 2007
at 12:17pm
i have 8!
Mcnair2heap
October 18th, 2007
at 7:13pm
1st!!!
Mcnair2heap
October 18th, 2007
at 7:14pm
My home network was sooo screwed up at first, its frustrating to set all of that up, great video!
willteddy09
October 18th, 2007
at 7:17pm
i have 8!
leerenton22
January 23rd, 2008
at 8:21pm
haha 4
223wdv
February 13th, 2008
at 10:15pm
i have 15
r1oot
April 7th, 2008
at 11:55am
i have 8 pc’s, 2 macs, 3 notebooks and a server!~
mentafox
April 17th, 2008
at 4:55am
3 desktops pc’s, and 1 notebook here. and another desktop within a month (:
turnuon
April 24th, 2008
at 9:56pm
i have 2 laptop 1 PC 1 Iphone and a router
hellomoto450
April 25th, 2008
at 6:32pm
I have 24 PC (12 Ubuntu linux) 10 Windows 1 apple 1 FreeBSD and 12 (6 Ubuntu linux 2 Suse linux (proxy Server) 4 Server 2003 Server enterprise useing ISA Server on A Windows Doamin network And hosting my own website with my own DNS server) On top running VPN with ISA and Terminal Server with 8 1/2 mile range wifi routers (probobly the Most Advanced Home Network ) oh and 3 laptops
theycutheyknowu
May 3rd, 2008
at 2:04am
how seeing whos conntected to websites? is that possible like you can see whos connected to your network?.
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June 12th, 2008
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