August 05, 2019
What kind of Machine is it?
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You scan your network but now what? You don't know what the devices are on the network and you just have a long list of IP Addresses. You need to figure out what they are.
Your monitoring system or scanner can tell you what it is or might be. It can tell you what it thinks it is, but if it doesn't here is what you can do, make sure you are a domain admin when you run these commands for windows.
systeminfo /s IP ADDRESS
Another windows tool
WMIC /NODE:hostname OS
This will tell you what it is, what os etc.
Then if you have a linux system
nmap -O -v IP ADDRESS
Then you can do several other things.
If you are on a completely windows network, you can also use Ping -a IP Address. Once you have the machine name you can look it up in Active Directory and it should tell you what it is in there.
Use these techniques to figure out what machines are using the ip addresses on the network.
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