>Thank Al,
>It looks like the GUID idea will work for my situation. On another forum someone suggested doing a IPCONFIG /renew (or /renew_all for Win98) to recogize any change to the NIC before checking for the "current" address, and this seems to correct for the ghosted situation.
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>Rick
IIRC IPCONFIG /renew etc. only works on machines that are running a DHCP client ("getting IP addresses 'automatically'"). IOW if you try it on a machine with a static IP address you get some sort of error message.
On NT 3.51 I get:
Error: No adapters bound to TCP/IP are enabled for DHCP
Regards. Al
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