> Never in my wildest dreams did I think my original suggestion would launch > such a contentious thread. All I was really after were things like: Ahh. But it's been fun, hasn't it? <g> > Is there a DLL or API function that can return things like tne address of a > NIC, a list of available network printers/names, available servers/names, > the user's default server/printer, get printer capture settings, set > printer capture settings, on and on ... ????? Yes. GPLib from MHSoftware. www.mhsoftware.com (well, this'll provide most of what you want -- I'm not sure about the NIC thing) /Paul