Situation: I'm inspired to work from home this evening. So I download some source from work's svn repo. Unfortunately, I find some lib files are missing. Not a problem, I'll remote in to my desktop at work and check out the environment there and see what I'm missing. Only windows-7 sucks at authentication and won't let me log in. However, I was able to access my file system via a share I have set up by remoting into a win-xp box on our network.
So if I could find a windows xp box on my network, I could use that to view my files at work. I can putty in to a server on the network, but it's a unix box. If I could see a list of servers that are up, I could easily pick one I know is windows and move forward.
What command can I type into the shell prompt to give me a list of available servers?
When you talk about remoting can we assume you are speaking about connecting via RDP?
If you wanted to see a list of computers that are up and have port 3389 open you could use a nmap command like this:
nmap -p 3389 10.2.27.0/24.What's your DHCP server (assuming you're not running static IPs) and can you get the list of leases?
arpmight also show you the list of "active" machines on your network, if they've had recent contact with the host you run it on.