Re: detecting macos currently running on any macintosh machine on the network
Re: detecting macos currently running on any macintosh machine on the network
- Subject: Re: detecting macos currently running on any macintosh machine on the network
- From: "John C. Welch" <email@hidden>
- Date: Mon, 17 Jun 2002 07:04:28 -0400
On 06/17/2002 04:42, "Quinn" <email@hidden> wrote:
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> You can get Net-SNMP from Dartware however, and install it on Mac OS X no
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> problem. Works quite well.
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Sure, but if you're going to install software on the Macs you could
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install your own software that gave you exactly the information you
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needed (and worked on 9 and X). I think this conversation is
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predicated on detecting the Macs out of the box.
Well, then I would avoid SNMP anyway. It's almost never installed or started
by default on any OS.
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One other option is to port scan the machine and see what services
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are available and how it responds to those services. It's probable
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that you could aggregate enough info to detect Mac OS 9 vs Mac OS X
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vs PCs in that way.
Probably the best route...by default, Windows is easy to spot, OS 9 is about
invisible except for pings, not sure about Mac OS X.
john
--
"Anyone can just go in there and kill someone, but you can't get information
from a corpse."
- SEAL motto
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