How does my Android phone figure out what's on my network without logging into the home router? I can see 8 devices on the network when I log into the admin account of the router using a web browser on a laptop. However, I can see all those devices from my Android phone WITHOUT logging into the router, simply by using "Fing" Android freeware: My question? How does the phone see both wired & wireless devices (such as a wired printer & a wired Ooma) without logging into the router? More importantly, how can I get Windows & Linux to see the same 8 or 9 devices on my network that the phone sees *without* logging into the router's admin account?

It's asking the network and the others replies. KDE's dolphin should be able to see all on the network. Microsoft I don't know, it usually fussy about the domain name.

How to list all devices on the Windows or Linux home network

Feb 18, 2016 62 Replies

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Carlos E.R. 10 years ago

I suggested other options on nmap to try. See what, if anything, is responding to network on those machines.

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Jasen Betts 10 years ago

If you know the IP address of the apple device does "arping" on that IP get a response from it (I'm asking because I can't test that here)

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pedro 10 years ago

On Wed, 2 Mar 2016 04:23:34 -0000 (UTC), Anda Lucite wrote: (snip)

My routers ONLY let me see the DHCP-assigned IP's/MACs, NOT any of the static IPs assigned by "me" outside their DHCP range. You get different results?

If I were an intruder and could see the target IP network addresses, I'd use a fixed IP for that very reason of lower visibility. Part of the reason I use my iDevice and Fing to explore my own network when I feel the need.

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