determine device type by ip only?

[flw]

I have a ip that I cannot determine what the device is. I've tried a nbtstat -a, shortcut to a open share and looked at my network AV for the ip to be listed as being a Workstation. Other that a ping, I cannot figure out what it is. It is in a ip range that printers use but I thought it would show up as a share via a short cut to the ip but it didn't.

Any other ideas on how to determine if its a workstation, printer, or other network device?

Thanks for any ideas

 

[kmcferrin]

Not really. There was a similar thread awhile back where they described how you could get the MAC address, and then look it up to see who makes the NIC. Sometimes that can give you a clue, but probably not.

You might try using a port/network scanning tool and running it against the IP address. Those are usually pretty good about returning the type of device at that address, including OS, running services, etc.

 

[Davetoo]

If you can get the MAC, any decent switch will then be able to tell you what port that MAC is plugged into, then trace it to the device that way.

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[itsp1965]

Try running a monitoring tool like LanSpy, Superscan among others. You enter the IP address and it will enumerate all services running on the device. From there you can get a general idea of what the device is