Scanning the local network

[eje211]

I'm trying to use a proprietary Windows program that looks for a proprietary device on the local network. I don't know where it's looking, which protocol, port or IP address. I only know it uses the Ethernet port.

It can't find the device in Wine. It can on Windows. It does not use any device drivers. All communication is done over Ethernet.

I tried poking around to see what could be going wrong. I tried several Windows LAN viewers and scanners, but none of them found any computers. So now I'm wondering: can Wine actually scan the local area network and find computers (or computer-like devices) on it? If so, how do I enable that ability?

Thanks!

My Wine version is 1.6.2 and I'm running it in a 32 bit prefix on a 64 bit Ubuntu 14.04 Trusty machine.

[oiaohm]

eje211 the answer is mostly no wine cannot scan network. Lot of find device applications want to access arp data that include mac addresses. Under Linux ARP data is root user data.

There are privilege differences between Windows and Linux so most network scanning applications are required to be native Linux.