YAPS Help
Main Screen
- Starting IP
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Enter the first IP address of a range to scan in this field.
You may also enter a host name to scan a single host by name.
(But only a single host.)
- Ending IP
- Enter the last IP address of a range to scan in this field.
- Output File
- The name of the file to write the final report to.
- Begin Scan
- Click this button to the begin the scan process.
- Choose
- Click this button to open a file selection dialog and select the output file.
- View
- Click this button to view the output file using the default Web browser for the system.
- Print
- Click this button to print the output file to the default printer.
- Configure
- Click this button to open the configuration dialog which is described below.
- Help
- Click this button to view the YAPS Help file (yeah, this one.)
- About
- Click this button to view the about screen. This screen will indicate whether this is an evaluation or a registered version.
- Exit
- If you can't figure out what this button does, then you certainly won't understand what this program is for!
Configuration Screen
- Resolve Host Names
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Check this box to resolve IP addresses to host names during a scan.
Host name resolution is usually the single most time consuming part of a scan,
so turn this off if you don't need the host names.
- Windows (SMB) Networking
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Check this box to scan for Windows networking shared drives and printers.
- Web Server
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Check this box to scan for WWW Servers on port numbers 80, 443, 1080, 8000, and 8080.
- Telnet
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Check this box to scan for telnet support.
- FTP Server
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Check this box to scan for FTP server and perform anonymous logon test.
- Finger Server
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Check this box to retrieve any Finger Service information available.
- SMTP Server
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Check this box to scan for a standard mail server.
- POP Server
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Check this box to scan for Post-Office Protocol mail server.
- NNTP Server
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Check this box to scan for a USENET News Server.
- Daytime
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Check this box to scan for a daytime server.
- Scan Port Range
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Check this box to perform a simple sequential port scan on the ports indicated by
the Starting and Ending Port Number fields.
- Starting Port
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The first port in the range to scan when doing a complete scan.
- Ending Port
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The last port in the range to scan when doing a complete scan.
- Select All
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Click on this button to select all of the scanning tests.
- Clear All
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Click on this button to Un-select all of the scanning tests.
- Timeout
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The timeout period in seconds, for each socket operation. (Note: this does not apply to
the Windows Networking Scan. I have found no way to control the time-out on this operation.)
- Maximum Threads
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The maximum number of threads the program will use. Each host is scanned
simultaneously by a separate thread. Reducing this number will reduce the
amount of system resources used during a scan. Increasing it will allow more
hosts to be scanned simultaneously, but may cause the system to run out of
resources. If the program crashes shortly after starting a scan, reduce this number.
My system (NT 4.0 with 64 Mbytes) runs fine with 150 threads.
- Maximum Sockets
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The maximum number of simultaneous asynchronous sockets to use (per thread) when doing
the port range scan. Like threads, more will run faster, but too many will cause the
program to fail.
- OK
- Cancel
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If you don't know what these are for, then please turn off your computer now and never touch it again.
Registration Screen
A license name and code will be provided when the program is purchased. To enter this
information, click on "About" and then click "Register". Enter the name and code
exactly as provided. Click OK and the information will be saved.