OS fingerprinter needed!

[Showtime8000]

Does anyone know of a Windows-compatble OS detection tool? Please link me to one!

[problemchild]

I won't fly off the handle and suspect you of anything nefarious just yet, but it might help your cause if you said why you need such a thing.

[Rewandythal]

I kinda wonder why you "need" an OS Fingerprinter, but I doubt there are any good ones for Windows anyway, so...
1. Download a floppy-based or CD-based Linux distro
2. Download nmap
3. Execute the following:

tar -xzf nmap-3.00.tgz
cd ./nmap-3.00
./configure
make
make install
su
nmap -sS -P0 -O ip.address.goes.here

The -O is the OS Fingerprinting part.

[jdenny]

... I kinda wonder why you "need" an OS Fingerprinter, but I doubt there are any good ones for Windows anyway, so...
1. Download a floppy-based or CD-based Linux distro
2. Download nmap
3. Execute the following:
...


Well, eEye Digital Security has ported nmap to Win NT/2K. It's called nmapNT and can be downloaded here (http://www.eeye.com/html/Research/Tools/nmapnt.html), now with Service Pack 1.0. It may worth a try.

Peace always,
<jdenny>

[Rewandythal]

nmapNT doesn't perform very well... I knew of its existence but it doesnt work on RAS (dial-up) connections (last time I checked anyway, correct me if I'm wrong).

[omalakai]

There is another version of Nmap for Windows, called NmapWin. It does work over a dial-up connection, as well as with a NIC.
NmapWin (http://mypage.bluewin.ch/vogje01/e/nmapwin/)

[Tedob1]

if you want to stick with the basics, use NetCat:

echo QUIT | nc -v -w 5 xxx.xxx.xxx.xxx 20-250 400-600 5000-7000