[stevesnj]

So I am at a school with 400+ computers and on my Mac I see currently 6 Blue 'SHARED' folders which show 'LimeWire Tunes'. Is there any way to track these computers location? Any way to get the IP address of the computers or network location? I want to stop these students because all these students running LimeWire is killing our internet speeds throughout the school. Thanks for any help.

[mduell]

Are you a school administrator, network administrator, or just another student?

If you're a school admin, ask your network admin.
If you're a network admin, wow how'd you get the job?
If you're a student, ask your network admin.

You can get the IP by connecting to those shares and running netstat. You may be able to link the IP to a physical location through the switch logs.

[Peter]

load itunes, connect to share.
open activity monitor, inspect itunes process -

[Peter]

what I then do is grab the IP, find out the associated MAC address and give it a static IP of some crap - so they have to find you and ask why it isn't working. Then you can cut their balls off.

[King Bob On The Cob]

I'm gonna go out on a limb and say that it's probably not LimeWire killing your internet speeds. (Not that I'm approving of downloading from LimeWire, but have you ever checked the content on Gnutella these days? It's single MP3s mostly, and if ~4.0 MB files are maxing your connection, you need a MUCH fatter pipe for 400 computers) What's the throughput on your connection? What's the speed of your LAN? What hardware are you running the LAN on? What packet filter/watcher/sniffer are you running?

I'd be more likely to blame either BitTorrent or nerds and their gaming than LimeWire.

Anyways, yea, what mudell said.

[stevesnj]

thanks guys I'll give all those a try