Claude,

It looks like this will work. Thank you.

Joel

>There are about 3 different ways of doing it programatically apparently. They're all in that thread. The winsock one looked the best ...
>>>see Message #529855 and thread...
>>>>What ways are there to get the IP address of a Win 2000 server?
>>>>
>>>>I'm running a program on my Win 2000 server. During startup of the program I need to get that server's IP address. I suppose I can use a Windows DLL to get it from the Registry. Does anyone know of any other Windows DLL calls that can return the server IP address other than the Registry DLL method calls?
>>>>
>>>>Joel
>>
>>You could parse the output from the ipconfig command...
>>
>>
>>D:\Dev\CodeMine>ipconfig
>>
>>Windows 2000 IP Configuration
>>
>>Ethernet adapter Local Area Connection 2:
>>
>> Connection-specific DNS Suffix . : zilch.com
>> IP Address. . . . . . . . . . . . : 192.168.0.4
>> Subnet Mask . . . . . . . . . . . : 255.255.255.0
>> Default Gateway . . . . . . . . . : 192.168.0.1
>>
>>D:\Dev\