Finding IP Address of Another Computer on Home Network 2

[kjv1611]

I know I've seen a command somewhere before that could be run to ping all the possible local IP addresses, but I can't remember what that was.

In my situation, I was wondering, is there a way to basically get the IP address for a computer you're connecting to from Windows 7?

I've got one box setup with FreeNAS at home, mainly for testing for now. I really like it, but with everything else, I hadn't even had it powered on for a couple months. Last night, I turn it on again, I can browse the 2 folder shares I created on it, but I can't find the IP address anywhere (from my Windows 7 desktop). I realize I could just connect a monitor and all to the box itself and get that, but I just don't want to do it that way this time.

Also, I thought it odd that on my D-Link DIR-655 router's status page, I could see everything else attached to my network, but it didn't list the FreeNAS box.

So what are my options? Is there a way in Win7 to view the IP address of a computer you see under "My Network Places"?

Or if not, then I guess I'm back to the MSDOS prompt, needing to know what command to run to ping all possible addresses until I find the box I'm looking for.

Thanks for any thoughts/suggestions.

 

[fisheromacse]

under the command prompt in XP you could type 'net view' to get a listing of machine names on the local network.

you could then ping the computer name to see the IP.

 

[kjv1611]

Ahh... there you go, those are magic words!

you could then [HIGLIGHT]ping the computer name[/HIGHLIGHT] to see the IP.

In this case, I already know the computer name, so perhaps all I have to do is ping that! I sure hope so, as I've never tried to ping a computer by name, only IP address.

I'll have to give that a shot ASAP, hopefully tonight.

 

[MasterRacker]

Another option might be to go here:

http://www.radmin.com/download/

, scroll down to free network utilities and download the Advanced IP Scanner.

Jeff
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[kjv1611]

Sounds nifty. I'll give that a look, regardless! Thanks, Jeff!

 

[fisheromacse]

Advanced IP Scanner is nice.
I like Angry IP Scanner. (

http://www.angryip.org)

Very similar, just a free, but open source.

 

[kjv1611]

Well, I was able to PING my FreeNas box by name, and got the IP address, but for some reason can't access the web GUI interface with that IP address.

I guess I'll have to break down and connect the monitor, keyboard, and mouse. oh well.

 

[kjv1611]

Well, I just don't know what's going on with it right now. Oh well, can't stay up all night piddling. Will get around to sorting it out this weekend.

I've tried putting in the IP address along with :80 at the end, to no good...

Something has gotten messed up somewhere, but I've clueless as to where. I'll sort it out eventually.

 

[kjv1611]

I think I ought to clarify. I ended up hooking up the keyboard and monitor to the FreeNas box. Then I checked everything, it was all working (well, I already knew that, b/c I can access the shares from the other computer). The IP address was correct, and all of that.

Maybe this is my problem. I don't know why, but I can't get this to work.

FreeNas says that I can access the web GUI by typing the IP address followed by :80...

So if the IP address were 192.168.0.200, then I'd just have to type 192.168.0.200:80 and I'd be in. Only it doesn't work.

I did notice one thing, however, that I don't remember being the case before. When I went in and redid the IP address to make sure all was well, it was asking me for the desired IP address, then the default gateway, dns server, and the subnet mask. Well, I assumed it would be the 255.255.255.0 (which is says is equal to 24). However, that never worked, so I tried 8 (255.0.0.0 I think). No difference.

Maybe I'm just forgetting somethign somewhere. On my Windows desktop, if I type in the IP address along with the port number, it just clears off the port number, and tells me it can't find the address... or can't find anything at the address, whatever the typical message is.

Anybody got any hints, or am I just losing my mind? I guess I ought to try from another computer or two as well, before I continue to assume it's on the FreeNas end.

 

[strongm]

>I'd just have to type 192.168.0.200:80 and I'd be in

Type in where?

Port 80 is the HTTP port. If using web browser you shouldn't need to include the port in the address, since HTTP defaults to port 80

So you should just need to enter

192.168.0.200

in IE or Firefox or whatever

>if I type in the IP address along with the port number

If you are typing this in at the command line then you are seeing the expected results

 

[kjv1611]

Okay, well, I tried it with and without the :80. I didn't think I'd need to type it in, but since that's what it said on the FreeNas box, and it didn't work without, I figured I'd give it a try.

I do have it wired in to my network behind a switch, separate from the router. I suppose that could have some effect, but it worked fine before, same setup... and now, I can see it in Windows, but can't get to the web GUI. Another thing there, is that before I "redid" the LAN IP address, and all of that, I was not able to see it listed under my router's status page. After redoing the LAN IP on the FreeNas box, it did start showing up on the router.

It's probably something really simple that I'm doing wrong, forgetting, whatever. The little bit of time I've tinkered with it, I've been pretty tired, and didn't stay at it long.

This weekend, I should have time enough to test different things - re-routing it, whatever. Since I'm not really depending on it so far, just testing, I can always redo the whole thing. I'd lose the back-up files there, but I wasn't counting on that backup just yet anyway.

I will say that with the freenas box, I'm very happy with this - even with a hard shut down, and turning it back on, it seems to work normal - just the web GUI doesn't seem to work... never gets to point of asking for password, just says can't be found.

Well, it's just a toy at this point, not a big deal, but I'll eventually get it straitened out and post what I did wrong.

 

[kjv1611]

Well, just wanted to update on the situation. It apparently had something to do with the way I had wired the switch. In between the last time I had the FreeNas box on and this most recent time, I had not thought about where I was plugging what. Before, I plugged in the connection to the router into spot "1". This last time, I think I had it in the last spot. So, I simply swapped a couple wires around.

Now, just like nothing ever was wrong, I'm in!