We've just started using Ping/X from Mabry (www.mabry.com). It is an Active/X control that you can drop on your form. It has a mode that doesn't force you to wait for the ping to finish - there is a Done event that fires when the ping either completes successfully or fails. If you specify a hostname instead of an IP address (www.microsoft.com, for example), the IP address lookup WILL force your program to wait. They have another control, Host/X I think, that will perform the lookup without forcing you to wait. I haven't used this, since we always have an IP address.

>I am considering using the ANETRESOURCES function to test if a server is available to the network.
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>Does anyone know of a way to change the Timeout value since if the server is not available then it takes an age to return control to my program.
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>The VFPPING in downlaods seems to have the same problem.
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>Thanks