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mesman00

What's that...?
does anyone know of any good filesharing programs for linux? or, does anyone know of any good programs for linux that will allow you to scan all of the files between a certain IP range on an open network. i have a program for windows called ShareScan that will allow you to scan microsoft shared networks if you put the ip range in. has anyone heard of anything similar for linux? or filesharing programs
 

Malcolm

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You could use Samba or NFS.

Samba is _very_ easy to configure and it works exactly like a windows network (with workgroups and such); also Samba scans the entire network searching for other Samba servers or Windows boxes (if you want you can even choose IP ranges).

NFS is somthing that I've only just played around with, and well, I only know very basic usage of it.
 

AlphaWolf

I prey, not pray.
I believe what he is looking for is something that scans the open internet for open windows SMB shares that many people tend to leave unsecured.
 
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mesman00

mesman00

What's that...?
AlphaWolf said:
I believe what he is looking for is something that scans the open internet for open windows SMB shares that many people tend to leave unsecured.

that's it. the network at school is the best place to find music by seeing what other people have on their computers, and the speeds are incredible fast.
 

AlphaWolf

I prey, not pray.
As for whether any software like this exists for linux, I don't know, but I myself can imagine writing a bash script which would use smbclient to easily do this.

Essentialy, you would want to incriment each IP address through the specified range, then issue generic connect parameters to smbclient based on each IP, and then check for success by using the variable $? (0 means success, 1 means failure).

Shouldn't be anymore than 100 lines of code, just read up a bit on bash syntax, it's fairly easy. (hell, I would write it myself if I didn't have class in an hour and I wasn't this close to finals :p )
 
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AlphaWolf

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pandamoan said:
i already edited that in my post, like exactly 1 minute after i posted....

....and blink 182 sucks balls. and yes, so does boxcar racers.

You also enjoy sucking balls, yet you don't hear us complaining.
 

Malcolm

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pandamoan said:
....and blink 182 sucks balls. and yes, so does boxcar racers.
pandamoan.::. Saying things like that are not only offending but off topic and won't do anything else but create spam. This is technical discussion not commenting on other people’s tastes.

AlphaWolf said:
You also enjoy sucking balls, yet you don't hear us complaining.
AlphaWolf.::. Please don't contribute to what could be a flame war, these comments aren't acceptable.
 

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