searching for IPs

I would check the router. Enter in the ip address of the router in your browser and it should have a page that you can go to to check.

 

I think typing "findsmb" in terminal would work.

 

Weird. I saw nothing in your original post that had anything to do with file system shares. You don't have to be sharing a file system to have an IP address. I guess I missed something. My more general suggestion was going to be the "arp -a" command in terminal.

 

I'm not too knowledgeable with terminal. findsmb was just a command that I remembered that listed IPs.

 

The findsmb command isn't going to show you the IP address of a system that isn't sharing network file system(s). It appears that all the machines on your network are configured for network shares, so the command shows you all the IPs. The arp command would work even if none of the systems were configured for network file sharing.

 

There may be systems that haven't been active for a while, so their 'arp' entries have expired in arp's cache. The purpose of arp is to map the hardware ethernet (MAC) address of the network interface to the IP address. You can 'ping' your network's broadcast address, and then run 'arp -a'; this should give you a full list, unless some machines are ignoring 'pings'. It seems 'findsmb' actively sends SMB name queries on the network, so you'll see any system that responded to the query.

 

Heres a simple way to find your current IP address:

This site will tell you some valuable info. http://www.ipchicken.com/

Sorry, i thought you wanted to know what your IP was and not a big group of IPs. I guess the only way this website would be of help to you would be to go from computer to computer; which isn't what you want to do. My bad.