Strangesearch equivalent

astrodave · 01-10-2005, 10:06 PM

Hey,

I am running Debian 3.0 on a computer in my dorm. I was wondering if there was an equivalent to the windows strangesearch. Do a google search for it. I don't mind getting in over my head. Maybe there is a way to write scripts that would do close to the same thing as strangesearch but i am sure that it is not possible to just port s.s. over to my linux box. Can anyone point me in the right direction?

Thanks a bunch.

David

XavierP · 01-11-2005, 01:43 AM

What does strangesearch do?

astrodave · 01-11-2005, 02:09 AM

Basically Strangesearch pings a range of ip address, finds the active computers, then indexes any windows shares and ftp servers that are located on those computers. So after it indexes these files they are searchable through a webpage. Then constantly in the background it continues to rescan those ip addresses and update the share information.

I believe this is all accomplished through perl scripts or something of that nature.

David

astrodave · 01-11-2005, 09:43 AM