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Network enumerating

Network enumerating is like playing a game of hide-and-seek with all the computers on a network. Imagine you and your friends are playing hide-and-seek in a big house. Each room in the house has a different friend hiding in it, but you don't know where they are.

In network enumerating, instead of friends, we have computers hiding in different rooms on a network. When someone is trying to find these computers, they use special tools to search through all the rooms and see if any computers are there. It's like using a flashlight to look under furniture or open cupboards to find your friends during the game.

Sometimes, the person looking might find computers that they weren't even looking for, just like how you might find a friend hiding somewhere unexpected in the house. But other times, they might not find all the computers or they might not be able to get into all the rooms.

Overall, network enumerating is a way for people to explore a network and see what computers are on it, where they're located, and what they're doing. It's like playing a big game of hide-and-seek, but instead of friends, we're looking for computers on a network.
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