Installing on Windows

Fing installation on Windows is straightforward: download the package and install it. If you do not have winpcap packet capture library in your system, you will be also prompted to install it. When asked to enable the Winpcap 'NPF' Windows service, you can decide whether:

• to install and start the NPF service, thus allowing fing (and other packet capture tools) to be used by any non-admin user in the system
• not to install the NFP service, so that only admin user accounts will be allowed to use fing

As soon as installation is complete, you can open a command prompt and start finging

fing

Installing on OS X

After having downloaded the dmg file for your Os X, open the pkg file, and follow the instructions provided by the installer. When installed properly, open a Terminal and type:

sudo fing

Installing on Linux

On Linux platforms, RPM, DEB and TGZ packages are supported, on both 32bit and 64bit platforms. Download the package most suitable for your distribution and open a Terminal window. You may refer to this List of Linux Distributions to find out the package format your platform requires.

if you are on a DEB-based distribution, type:

sudo dpkg -i overlook-fing-2.2.deb

If you are on a RPM-based distribution, type:

sudo rpm -i overlook-fing-2.2.rpm

If you are on a TGZ-based distribution, type:

sudo installpkg overlook-fing-2.2.tgz

After the installation has succesfully completed, open a Terminal and type:

sudo fing

The command 'fing' without any additional parameter executes a discovery on your Local Area Network with a plain text output sent to console. This is only the simplest of reports Fing may generate.