>John,
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>Would you mind sharing the api call you are using to get the ip address?
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>>Well, I didn't have any controls on the form that called it, but I had forgotten about stealing someone else's code that pulled the ipaddress using whatelse, the winsock control. I've changed the code to use an api call and the problem has gone away!<g> Thanks
PMFJI - I've got an article about doing this at:
http://www.kirtlandsys.com/Tools%20Page.htmClick on the developer articles link. It shows both the winsock method (and it's major disadvantage), plus a better way of doing it.