Installing nmap with MS-DOS?

Hi there, i'm trying to install nmap for windows OS from the insecure.org website and have read the instructions on how to do it but i can't, can anyone give me a step by step guide please? (i'm sure there's only three of four steps)

I've dowloaded nmap and also winpcap (i've installed that) but i've got to go into MSDOS and i get lost at the part where the insecure.org site starts talking about changing and creating directories because i don't know how to use MS-DOS.

I'm just confused because the instructions seem easy enough but when it says create the directory for nmap i wonder why, because surely it's already in one isn't it? :confused:

I have some of the tools and have read quite a few things now, just need a little more knowledge of windows and DOS and my newbie phase should be over........ :rolleyes:

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Originally posted here by Eonfire

I've dowloaded nmap and also winpcap (i've installed that) but i've got to go into MSDOS and i get lost at the part where the insecure.org site starts talking about changing and creating directories because i don't know how to use MS-DOS.

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would you plz quote what the insecure site is talking about ?

This is quite simple to do.

1) Download the command line version of NMAP from insecure
2) Using Windows Explorer, simply create a directory such as C:\NMAP
3) Using WinZip or a compression app of your choice, extract the contents of the archive into the C:\NMAP directory
4) Open a command prompt by going to start then run and type command or cmd, depending upon which Windoze OS you have.
5) At the command prompt, type cd \nmap

You are now in the nmap directory, you may have to path down another directory or two then run nmap.exe. I'm not sure how much additional help you need but this should get you started.

Now that was the best instructions on how to install nmap..
I had a few difficulty's installing nmap not that long ago. Although i did it another way.
But those instructions were brilliant.
Thanks thehorse..


cheers
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Yes this is very easy to do for both Windows OS and Linux. If your trying to get nmap to work you have to download WinPcap

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Nmap requires the free WinPcap packet capture library. Obtain and install the latest version from http://winpcap.polito.it. They distribute an executable installer which makes this easy.

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WinPcap: the Free Packet Capture Architecture for Windows

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winpcap

Also I believe that winpcap requires windows in order to work, so if this is a pure dos (no windows at all) implementation you prob wont be able to get nmap working.

I doubt though, that you are doing a true dos implementation, but you never know.

My suggestion would be to extract the whole archive into the C:\WINDOWS\System32 directory, that way you can run it at anytime from any where within the command line simply by typing in 'nmap' :)

Or better yet, add the path as an environment variable and you wont have to put it in the Windows directory at all. ;)

Right click my computer, select properties, advanced then environment variable. Add the path to NMAP.exe, PRESTO! Done.

Well I never !!
I've been reading here for a while, about this 'nmap' thingy. Google gave me the details, suffice to say that I NOW have it, thanx to th13, and if I can do it, then you should all be able to. I appear to have one advantage over eonfire, and that is I have been using DOS for quite a while, and maybe oneday I will even be considered 'quite good' at it.
Enough of this drivel ?? I've got a new toy !!!
bye 4 now, and thanx again.

hmm, i'm a bit more lost than i thought i was. I've downloaded nmap and also winpcap, made a directory called C:\nmap then i put the nmap files and the winpcap files into the directory c:\nmap but it won't work when i go to run and type in :c:\nmap.exe

I'm guessing this is because i don't know how to make a path? I went to md-dos and typed in : path c:\nmap but i still can't get it to run.

(i'm looking for a solution on the net now)

Also when i run ms-dos it goes to a full screen version, what do i type in to get it to go to the smaller screen version?

winpcap - I D/L to desktop, then hitting the icon, it went to prog files by default, and I let it go.

path lists the directories that dos searches when looking for an executable file, inc bat files.

path example path c:\;c:\dos;c:\accounts

here the command is to first check in c:\
then to check in c:\dos
and then to finally check in c:\accounts

(note the ; <semi-colon>is the separator between paths.

what I'm saying is that there might be some layers to open before you get to the Dir that holds the .exe
i.e. c:\nmap\xxx\xxx ? just browse in explorer to C root, open nmap and find the .exe

small screen ?
I don't know for certain, but am fairly certain that if it is a window that you have opened ?? to get to dos, R/Click to properties, in the general tab select window, not full screen.

if all else fails, there was an 'nmapwin' on the site

I DID IT!!! :D

I didn't know how to set the path properly, i was typing in 'path' when i should of been typing in 'path='.

I then typed in nmap.exe and it was there! I found it on the net in the end on an ms-dos user guide page, but thanks you guys for pointing me in the right direction. :)

One last thing (hopefully) relating to dos : when i do a command, say DIR, it lists loads and loads of programs making the information go right off the page, but there's no scroll function so i can't see everything, how do you get around this? Or isn't there any way?

Well you could type :

dir /p

/P Pauses after each screenful of information.

Is that what you meant ???

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One last thing (hopefully) relating to dos : when i do a command, say DIR, it lists loads and loads of programs making the information go right off the page, but there's no scroll function so i can't see everything, how do you get around this? Or isn't there any way?

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There is always a way. Press and hold Alt then press Enter and it will size the DOS window between full screen and a windows panel. This will give you the ability to scroll.

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if all else fails, there was an 'nmapwin' on the site

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I used the GUI version of nmap once, and it was the most awfull things. Its really hard to use and on top of that its highly unstable.
I recoment you just continue using DOS.
A good site that will tell you all about different DOS commands is http://www.computerhope.com/msdos.htm#02 (thats where I go for my problems :))

Thanks Agent_Steal that did the job. :)

TheHorse i tried that but i still don't get the scroll option, maybe some windows versions scroll and some don't? Oh, and HDD that's weird because that's the place i was at when i was trying to figure this problem out, i agree it's a good site.

Thanks again for the help, time to carry on learning what i can from the tutorials i guess. :D

Ok - let me get something straight

The Windows NT* command prompt (cmd.exe) IS NOT MS-DOS . It isn't even slightly similar to DOS, it's only superficially similar. It is nothing like DOS - what's behind the cmd.exe is really a 32-bit Windows program. nmap is a 32-bit windows program, AND THERE IS NO DOS PORT.

There probably will be no dos port, ever. Therefore, trying to run nmap in MS-DOS is entirely futile.

However I suspect that by "MS-DOS" you really mean "The windows NT command prompt"

Slarty

* - By "Windows NT" I mean any version of Windows NT, for example, 4,5,5.1 - which are often referred to as "Windows NT 4.0" "Windows 2000" and "Windows XP" respectively

To get the scrollbar on your cmd.exe window just right-click on the top bar and choose properties. On the tab "Layout" Screen Buffer Size, set height to something like 3000.

On the properties page you can also change the font and colors if you like.