>>>>>>Anyone know an easy way to retrieve the local TCP/IP address using VFP?
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>>>>>IP Address? I believe NetBios does this. But for the free way, Rick Strahl's wwIPStuff class has a method called GetIPFromDomain that does a DNS Lookup on a domain name...
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>>>>Thanks, Eric. But I'm wanting the acutal IP address for the machine that my Exe's runninging on, which coincidentally won't have a DNS entry.
>>>Open the registry using regedit to find the key for the ip address. Then use the registry.prg that ships with VFP or get the one from Rick Strahl's WWW.west-wind.com and locate that key.
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>>This information may not be stored in the registry depending on the network setup. Many networks assign IP addresses at logon, and most set IP from a login script.
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>In that case, I'd post in the win32 api section. Maybe George Tasker or one of the other gurus can give you an api call.

I think the solution will be found in one of the ActiveX controls designed to work with network function, like GPLib.