Hey, Now that the hackers job. Use nmap to find the os of a remote machine, it works in 80% cases. The process is pretty complicated. Read documentation of nmap for how this works. There are few other methods like telnet to that machine, the banner may show the os version. -------------------------------------------------------------------------- LI is all for free speech, but this list was created for a purpose -- to help popularise Linux in India. If your messages are counterproductive to that purpose, your privileges to submit messages can and will be revoked.
