>>>>Well, actually my first thought was to use the WSH ( George and ED would be proud of me :-) ) to get the information. The problem is the same as I believe it would be trying to use Sysinfo or similar. I.e. Browser security will not allow the necessary access. This was my experience while experimenting with WSH. Is this correct or am I missing something?
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>>>OK, Bill, I'm proud of you.< g > Since part of the functionality the WSH provides is for remote administration, you might be able to do this. This is a guess, and I don't have my WSH book handy at the moment. If you can't it may be a permissions issue.
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>This is shooting from the hip but why not use Server-Side Scripting using WSH instead of client-side. Once the user accesses your site you have certain information already from the server variables (e.g. IP Address if not going through a proxy). You can use it to access the system yourself from VBScript or JavaScript on the server. Just an idea.

IP Address is pretty much all you have access to without specific NT rights to that machine. You can do a lookup to get the machine name, but that doesn't do a troubleshooter much good. A port scanner will get you a little further regarding open holes to the internet, but anything beyond that would be hacking.