which command is linux's netview?

Question

In windows, I can use netview to see all the computers on the LAN network, but what's the corresponding command on linux?

Solution 1

yes you can.

open your terminal and type as who -a . that will list all information .

else you can use nmap also . great network tool.

you can get it by sudo apt-get install nmap

if you assume you IP starts from

192.168.1.1 then you can list all Computers connected with the LAN with this command

nmap 192.168.1.1-255 

The above command will scan from 192.168.1.1 to 192.168.1.255 IP's and list you which is up and which is down .

Solution 2

You can type

arp -a

commandin terminal to see computers on Lan.

Solution 3

net view on Windows is used for Active Directory. You can emulate this with Samba.

Use:

$ sudo apt-get install samba

This will install net commands that you can use to join the Windows domain, such as:

$ net help join
Usage:
net rpc join -U <username>[%%password] <type>
  Join a domain
    username    Name of the admin user    password  Password of the admin user, will prompt if not specified
    type    Can be one of the following:
        MEMBER  Join as member server (default)
        BDC Join as BDC
        PDC Join as PDC

You can also use arp-scan, found here, if you're only looking to discover hosts on the network.

Comments

[Panther]

Or use Zenmap if you want a graphical interface for nmap

[Shayan]

Note that arp shows the IPs that the computer has contacted from cache so it doesn't list all devices on the network. One should use a ping loop to contact all the hosts first then use arp.