The -A (aggressive scan) option forces nmap to use operating system detection, version detection, script scanning, and traceroute detection.

We can use nmap more aggressively to try to winkle more information out of the device. The device with IP Address 192.168.4.11 had an unknown manufacturer and a lot of ports open. RELATED: How to Turn a Raspberry Pi into a Low-Power Network Storage Device Unknown Device With Many Open Ports However, this wont work if the device doesnt respond to ping. If the device you want responds, then its MAC and IP will be listed in the ARP table and you can see it with. It uses Samba so that I can connect to it from any computer on my network. Rep: You can try pinging the broadcast address, or every possible address in the subnet. The MAC address is also sometimes called the ethernet address. This makes sense I use that particular Pi as a sort of mini-Network Attached Storage device (NAS). SMB is a means of sharing folders and files across a network. Samba is a free software implementation of Microsoft’s Server Message Block protocol (SMB).

We’ve Lined Up The Suspects Let’s Make Them Talkĭevice 192.168.4.10 is a Raspberry Pi that has port 445 open, which is described as “microsoft-ds.” A quick bit of Internet searching reveals that port 445 is usually associated with Samba.

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