Take a look at wwIPStuff class on west-wind.com. They have funtions to do RDNS lookups from VFP. As far as finding out active computers, make a shell call to NET VIEW and pipe out the results into a text file. wwIPStuff might already have a function which gives you the list.


>Hi Friends,
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> How can I find out active lan users ? There are around 20 machines in lan. Out of that 5 machines are not being used. I want to find out the ip address of remaining 15 machines which are right now being used from within visual foxpro.
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>Regards.
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>Bhavesh