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Hi there! ;)
Sorry for troubling u again!. I have posted this question twice with no success. This time with a greater hope!
How to get all the connected computers' names in a network. (Win 9x). (When I say computer's name, I mean Network Neighborhood -> Properties >Identification)
Also I want to check whether my app is installed on those systems?
Please help me as deadline is nearing.
Thanx in Advance!
Jeba.
P.S. If u have source code, please send me or post it.
I know this is not really an answer to your question, but why don't you put a textfile on the server, or a shared folder. Then everytime your app starts it could put the name of it's PC in the file. At least then you would know which PC's do have your app installed.
The only other thing I can think of is that I saw a few replacements for Windows Explorer on the net once. If you could get the source code you would know how it sees all the PC's.
Just some ide'ers!
I have looked into this a little bit, and i am afraid that you might have to use api's to determine all the network connections, if you simply wanted to see a mapped drive I do not think that would be too bad, but to see all the possible connections in network neighborhood, I am not sure how you would do it.
As for detecting if your application is installed, there is of course the registries, and you could spend time trying to scan the registries to see if you app is installed, which of course would be the best and most all rounded approach, or you could have you program write a file to say the win system directory. Then when you are scanning all the connections you could just check for that file, if it exists then your program is installed, if not, your program is not installed.
Dunno if this helps you at all.
Good Luck
Check if this is relevant to you ..
http://support.microsoft.com/support...-US&SD=gn&FR=0
Thanx guys!
It helped me a lot!
Jeba.