>>How do I get date and time of NT server to register in to log file, from application running from Win 95 node.
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>>TIA
>
>Here's a function I wrote, that doesn't require using the API... seems to work ok.
>
>

>#DEFINE _SERVER "svrgoliath"
>#DEFINE _PATH "storage"
>
>function ServerTime( cServerName, cPath )
>
>local cUNC,cTmpFile,tServerTime
>
>if empty( cServerName )
>	cServerName = _SERVER
>endif
>if empty( cPath )
>	cPath = _PATH
>endif
>
>cTmpFile = '!'+right(SYS(2015),7)+'.tmp'
>
>cUNC = addbs('\\'+cServerName)
>
>if left(cPath,1) = '\'
>	cPath = subs(cPath,2)
>endif
>
>cUNC = addbs(cUNC+cPath)+cTmpFile
>
>set alternate to ( cUNC )
>?
>set alternate to
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>tServerTime = FDATE( cUNC, 1 )
>
>delete file ( cUNC )
>
>return tServerTime
>

>
>It actually returns a DateTime but you can pull the time out if you want. As you can see, the user will need write,read,delete access on the path you sepcify for this to work.
>

It's a neat approach to the problem, Bob; I see two possible problems:

(1) You need write access to somewhere on the NT box in question, and
(2) I've gotten some funny time stamp conversions reading a date/time stamp off an NTFS volume on some release of NT with some Win9x versions. The date/time stamp read off the NT box vaied by up to an hour with the date/time stamp read for the same file from a networked Win9x box. I've never pinpointed the problem, but it has resulted in a lot of head-scratching; biggest problems seem to have come up during development; I sometimes got .FXPs back from an NT box date/time stamped earlier than the .PRG file when the .FXP was compiled from the Win9x box and the .PRG modified on the NT box in the same shared NT directory.

>BOb