Hotspotting in VB6

Hello to everyone.

I have a task to complete and i would like you help please before attending outsourcing.

I have a PC with two NICs installed, working on Internet connection sharing. The rest of the network is wireless (Wi-FI). My company makes seminars to doctors mostly about new pharmaceuticals and technologies and these people are arriving with their laptops ready to attend the material available and listen to the seminar. There is a server which is equipped with the courses of every of their matter. And they log in to the network. The wireless network used for this is now free (not of charge, it is free of charge anyway) but everyone can log in there from every course and there is a mixup.

When they are arriving they give their data (name etc) and they receive a card with their entry information. What i would like to do is:

1. Create a database to keep their usernames so i know who entered the network. The creation of this is easy, it can be done in any kind of database preferrable access.

2. i would like to have a login page so every body will have to login first before entering the wireless network by giving their username and pass that they have received at the front desk. That will happen from the moment of clicking at their browser. they will then be redirected to the login page of the relevant server, or to a main login page and selecting their course to log in. Which is fairly easy too.

3. This is the difficult part: I would like a kind of DB grid or other component to have the information of the user. Example

if i have 5 fields in my database (password, date issued, because some are invited over the mail and they register in the front desk when they arrive, date logged in, seminar type, ip address received from DHCP) the i would like a record like this

WWQDXRT 2006-5-23 2006-10-26 12:55 192.168.0.221

What is that i don't know is how to enter these information and with which control in vb. Some friends told me to read and utilize winsock but others said no. and this is the missing part form all project. how to get these information form the client computer.

the ip address of the first nic is 10.0.0.11 and since is tis on internet connection sharing, the DHCP will give addresses in the range 192.168.0.1 to 255 which makes it even easier.

can someone give me a kind of sample code? Do i worik with the corect tool by using visual basic?

Please note that this is not a payable hotspot and this is not what i would like to do. It is a monitoring tool so it will be easier to attend further seminars intead of filling fomrs in the end of every seminar.


Thanks a lot for your help whoever will atend.

Nicholas/Athens Greece