"Kev" <invalid@invalid.invalid> wrote in message
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> Stuart Miller wrote:
>> "me here" <gloaming_agnet@hotmail.com> wrote in message
>> news:45da4654_3@news.chariot.net.au...
>>> Benny Van wrote:
>>>
>>>> Hello All!
>>>> I set up a wireless router at home, and it works very well. I didn't
>>>> use WEP becuase my laptop's Wireless NIC doesn't support it. Now I
>>>> want to see all the computers currently using my wireless router, is
>>>> there a way to do that?
>>>> Thanks!
>>>>
>>>> SIncerely,
>>>> Ben
>>>
>>> Use this freebie. Easy to use.
>>>
>>> http://www.snapfiles.com/get/lanspy.html
>>>
>>> Very good little app.
>>>
>>> Cheers
>>>
>>> Rob
>>>
>>> --
>>>
>> Thanks - this is a cool utility, but there is a minor problem - it does
>> not detect my Linux boxes connected to the network.
>> Has anyone else noticed this?
>>
>> Stuart
>>
>>
> Out of curiosity can you "ping" them from the machine that is running
> "Lanspy". One of the family tried the program and them uninstalled it,
> reason given was that it hadn't picked up one of the laptops that was
> using wireless. This laptop runs ZA Pro and does not respond to being
> pinged or allow sharing of any kind, before I could double check the
> program and been removed and the laptop had disappeared out of the door.

The two linux machines are configured in normal security, without local
firewall. They both run samba, for workgroup based shares, as I run both xp
and win98 on other machines here. Both are readable & writeable for shares,
one runs as my print server, and both respond properly to ping. It took a
while, bit I finally have it so that everybody can see everybode else.

Everything here lives behind a firewall/router.

My wireless laptop just died, so I have to wait until my son comes by with
his laptop to test the wireless detection.

Stuart