Check the man page for nmap. There are other tricks for smoking out the Windows machines. Steve Holmes writes: > -----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- > Hash: SHA1 > > That's too bad since I have 4 of the bloody bastards on my network > (they're for my wife and kids who haven't warmed up to Linux yet). > That does seem to match my observations though; if I ping with > something like ping -c2 or -c3 I may also hear from my other linux box > and my Netgear wireless access point. But yea, the windows boxes > never seem to show up and they are the ones I want to verify - > especially the wireless connected ones. > > On Fri, Dec 31, 2004 at 01:59:53PM -0700, Gregory Nowak wrote: > > As far as I know, windows machines don't seem to respond when you ping the broadcast address, only gnu/linux boxes respond, go figure. > > > > Greg > > - -- > HolmesGrown Solutions > The best solutions for the best price! > http://ld.net/?holmesgrown > -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- > Version: GnuPG v1.2.4 (GNU/Linux) > > iD8DBQFB1tVJWSjv55S0LfERApgGAKCfMrcGJp9kQ6DG0wF2FDI761jbigCeN2vj > C0lq246+sJ6rl2p8pI+Z7KM= > =OaEm > -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- > > _______________________________________________ > Speakup mailing list > Speakup at braille.uwo.ca > http://speech.braille.uwo.ca/mailman/listinfo/speakup -- Janina Sajka, Chair Accessibility Workgroup Free Standards Group (FSG) janina at freestandards.org Phone: +1 202.494.7040 If Linux doesn't solve your computing problem, you need a different problem.
