FW: [wplug] what os is running?

[Coutch, Robert]

If you don't want to risk making waves ( or even trouble ) by using Nmap,
try looging into the machines via ftp. If the serve ftp, some info might be
in the login message. You can also pull some info from http requests but
you'll need special software ( I can't remeber what it was ) to do this.

If port scanning is allowed, try cheops.
It maps out a network graphically and show the OS of each device it finds.
You can also set it to monitor when machines go online/offline as well as
some basic SNMP stuff.

-Bob



-----Original Message-----
From: R.E.Coutch [mailto:coutchre at usaor.net]
Sent: Wednesday, October 30, 2002 5:45 PM
To: coutchre at tvratings.com
Subject: [wplug] what os is running?


Hi
This is going to sound a bit odd, but I want to find out what OS the 
machines on my network are running without going to each machine.  Is 
there a way to "probe" each machine without being overly intrusive? 
This is being done to compile statistics and nothing more.  We are 
curious what OS (Linux, *nix, Mac, Windows) is running and the number. 
I'm aware of <www.netcraft.com> but I'm looking for something that will 
run in batch-mode.
Thanks
Emilio

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