How to find out a unknow PC Server's IP without Monitor

Question

I have a PC Server Running, But without Monitor. the OS is Windows Server 2003. I can connect my laptop to its network interface, but how can I find out its IP?

Answer 1

If you are connected through the network interface, you might be able to find the IP address by doing a port scan with something like NMap. There is a windows version here that you can put on your laptop.

Answer 2

If you've a router kicking about you could connect both the laptop and server to that, then just look at the router's admin pages to see the list of DHCP clients (and thus the Server's IP in this context).

This might already be possible depending of your current network configuration (ie, just check the DHCP server), unless of course the server provides the DHCP for you network in which case this suggestion is useless...

Answer 3

Right after you start your computer run arp -a from the command line. Assuming your computer and server are on the same subnet.

Answer 4

• Do one thing connect your laptop with your server and use some software ip-address scanner like Advanced IP Scanner 1.5 . Its free too

• How do you expect to work without seeing it visually. Anyways when I face something like this, I do it using several shortcut keys and trying to imagine whats happening and then finally take a print-screen. Then I paste the print-screen in a bitmap and and take Print (its hard to do it sometimes when you are blind).

• Or get a temporary monitor