Help on a Program

[dschuessler]

Hello Everyone,
I am not sure if this is bigger than I wanted to do, but I am thinking about writing a pretty simple program. I would like the program to give me the pc's ip address, Computer's Name, Description/Comment, and the Operation System. That is it. I have wrote a program before that does all of this, but now with windows xp and the firewall I can't always ping machines to get their ip address. Is there a better way of me doing this or does any of the windows version have a tool. I would appreciate any help with this.

The end result, I would really like to be able then to export the data or convert the code in access so I can write an asp page so I can pull this information up anywhere.

Thanks
Dan

[Pino]

So the program will give you the deatisl of the computer it was run off?

[dschuessler]

Sorry, I should of clarified that. I am hoping to get the information for my network pcs. I even am thinking of a different route but not sure how. The data is all ready there I know. If there is some way I could export a net view and export the other other information I to text files, I could have access merge and join by computer name and maniuplate the data I need.

Is this an option. Not having luck at getting or finding out how to export net view results.

Thanks
Dan

[dglienna]

You can use vbs to get info from other computers, if you know their computer name. Edit this to change the name of your computer, and see what it produces. You can delete extra details. To run it, use CSCRTIP COMPSYS.VBS
or you can pipe the output to a file on your server.