Is there a program which can tell me the ip address of a computer when is connected to my network? A list of names or ip addresses.
For example when my wife is on my main desktop computer I can either go on another desktop or laptop and work. However I don't know the ip address of the computer she's on it's dhcp and no static ip addresses. I would like to ssh into the main desktop and work on it. Sometimes I have asked her if I could get on for a minute to get the ip address. From a terminal I do an ifconfig and get the address. I could get it from the router too but that is requires logging into the router. There must be some short command I can run? All the computers are running Ubuntu and samba is not installed. Once I know the ip address I can ssh into the main desktop.
Best Answer
you could try nmap, if you don't have it, it can be installed via the following :-
you can then scan your network by issuing :-
obviously change address range if your network differs