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[jasjac]

Hi,

Would anybody know of a ProIV (v5.5) call to find out the users Computer Name or IP Address (or both)?

Cheers

Jason

[TalentedFool]

There's no single call that you can use to find out the hostname of the users computer or the IP address (though you can find the server name by using &$@~COMPUTERNAME).

I wanted something like this a while back and wrote a function that basically ran the DOS command 'hostname | nslookup > C:\host.txt' which pipes the outout of the command to the host.txt file and provided you have an internal DNS server setup and everything is fine then the output in the file should look like the following: (Not sure what it looks like without a DNS Server ?)

==start
Default Server: dnsServer.corp.co.uk
Address: 192.168.0.1

> Server: dnsServer.corp.co.uk
Address: 192.168.0.1

Name: MyMachine.corp.co.uk
Address: 192.168.0.2

>
==end

the rest of the function then basically dealt with reading that text file ignoring everything until it found the Name line and used the information from that line and the address line to give me what I wanted.

Should be easy to code again - not sure if I still have the system that I did that in. If I have and have time I'll see if I can dig it out and post the prx for you (but don't breath)

Lee

[Lewis Mccabe]

Jasjac,

Attached is a global function from 5.5 VIP but I exported via $XFR so you could use in native. There is a global logic and a file as well. This will return IP address.

Lew

Attached Files

•  rgetip.prx   9KB   133 downloads

[jasjac]

Jasjac,

Attached is a global function from 5.5 VIP but I exported via $XFR so you could use in native. There is a global logic and a file as well. This will return IP address.

Lew

Fantastic. Thanks for that.

Cheers

Jason

[chuckl]

Lewis,
Can you export this as a .vpx as well, I would appreciate it very much.

thanks in advance
chuckl

[Lewis Mccabe]

Jason,

Attached is the vpx as requested.



Lew

Attached Files

•  RGETIP.OUT   24.01KB   102 downloads

[Lewis Mccabe]

Correction - Chuckl your vpx is uploaded.

Lew

[chuckl]

thanks, it's all good

[Lewis Mccabe]

Jason,

I did notice some global logics which VIP automatically exported which I may have missed for the native export. Let me know if you had any problems with that.

Lew

[Lewis Mccabe]

Jason,

You can get the computer name by adding the ALL switch to IPCONFIG command. Sorry I didn't post that sooner.

Lew

[Glenn Meyers]

Anyone done this on the 4.6 Kernel?

Glenn