Re[2]: locate windows workstation if you know the username

From: Matthew Leeds (mleeds@theleeds.net)
Date: Thu Aug 31 2006 - 12:16:09 EDT


For the terminally lazy, you might Google TCPNetView. This GUI utility will give you both the IP address and MAC address.

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---Matthew
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On 8/30/2006 at 1:05 PM Mike Sues wrote:

>Hello,
>
>if they're using WINS, send a NetBIOS name
>request for the username, netbios service 03
>(i.e. messenger service) to the WINS server.
>It will respond with the IP of the host registered
>to the user's workstation.
>
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>-----Original Message-----
>From: offset [mailto:offset@ubersecurity.org]
>Sent: Wednesday, August 30, 2006 1:34 AM
>To: pen-test@securityfocus.com
>Subject: locate windows workstation if you know the username
>
>
>Greetings fellow pen-testers,
>
>Looking for ideas on tracking down a windows workstation if you know the
>username.
>
>I know that if I run net send username "" I can tell that the user
>is online without the message box popping up on their machine (usually),
>but
>I'd like to know which workstation a particular user is at for a targeted
>arp spoofing attack against a client.
>
>-off
>
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