Re: [1/2 OT] How to find the desktop near me?
On Saturday 30 June 2012 18:19:41 lina wrote:
> On Sun, Jul 1, 2012 at 12:27 AM, Johan Grönqvist
>
> <johan.gronqvist@gmail.com> wrote:
> > 2012-06-30 18:16, lina skrev:
> >> Hi,
> >>
> >> The desktop installed the Sid (seems not so relevant here.) Now the
> >> monitor/screen not work; other things are totally fine.
> >>
> >> I used to login desktop first and then ssh from laptop,
> >>
> >> Now since not be able to log in, how can I find its ip ? so I can
> >> connect from laptop.
> >> or
> >> shall I just find other monitor and connect?
> >
> > That seems to be the simplest solution, if you have a working monitor.
> >
> > So you have a working computer, but without monitor, and you want to know
> > its IP-address? I assume your laptop is connected to the same router as
> > the monitorless computer.
> >
> > I would have two suggestions.
> >
> > 1) Log into the router, and see what IP-addresses have been given out
> > recently, and try connecting to them.
> >
> > 2) Install zenmap on the laptop, find the IP-address range the router
> > uses (mine uses 10.0.1.*, most I have used use 192.168.0.* or
> > 192.168.1.*). Run a quick scan with zenmap on that range of IP-addresses,
> > and see which ones have an ssh-port open.
> >
> > Then try to connect to those.
>
> I shutdown, use zenmap, restart and scan again,
>
> but the newly two IPs I still failed to connect.
>
> Thanks for your suggestions, tomorrow I will borrow some monitor,
> don't want to buy one. haha ..
Have you tried the method of seeing what devices, by IP, are connected to your
router? It does not sound as though you have a massive network.
Lisi
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