Help in getting the IP address dynamically
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Hi Friends, I have developed one application in vb 6.0 with msaccess as backend. I am using the following Connection string. Conn.ConnectionString = "Provider=Microsoft.Jet.OLEDB.4.0; Data Source=\\deep1\overtime log\Overtime Log\Data\OT_Log.mdb" In the above line, deep1 is the server name(System name) where the database mdb file is located. the folder overtime log is shared folder. I packed the application and installing in others system. This is working fine for some of the people and they can able to login inside the application and give data...and I Checked their entries are presented over deep1-Sever mdb file. But some of us cannot login since, the network could not find the path deep1. So its not logging in. But if they try with the servers ip address they can go inside. But the problem is the server's ip address will change dynamically. So in code i cannot give ipaddress also. So only that I have given the system name. The persons who are all in different subnet in network cannot able to access with system name. Can anyone please help me out. I m very thankful to you. Thanks in advance, Regards
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Hi Friends, I have developed one application in vb 6.0 with msaccess as backend. I am using the following Connection string. Conn.ConnectionString = "Provider=Microsoft.Jet.OLEDB.4.0; Data Source=\\deep1\overtime log\Overtime Log\Data\OT_Log.mdb" In the above line, deep1 is the server name(System name) where the database mdb file is located. the folder overtime log is shared folder. I packed the application and installing in others system. This is working fine for some of the people and they can able to login inside the application and give data...and I Checked their entries are presented over deep1-Sever mdb file. But some of us cannot login since, the network could not find the path deep1. So its not logging in. But if they try with the servers ip address they can go inside. But the problem is the server's ip address will change dynamically. So in code i cannot give ipaddress also. So only that I have given the system name. The persons who are all in different subnet in network cannot able to access with system name. Can anyone please help me out. I m very thankful to you. Thanks in advance, Regards
are these people that can't login able to do a DNS lookup? if not, then your kind of out of luck using APIs to be able to resolve the ip address of deep1. if they can, here's a link to some code that might help you... haven't tested it but looks good... http://www.mvps.org/access/api/api0067.htm
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Hi Friends, I have developed one application in vb 6.0 with msaccess as backend. I am using the following Connection string. Conn.ConnectionString = "Provider=Microsoft.Jet.OLEDB.4.0; Data Source=\\deep1\overtime log\Overtime Log\Data\OT_Log.mdb" In the above line, deep1 is the server name(System name) where the database mdb file is located. the folder overtime log is shared folder. I packed the application and installing in others system. This is working fine for some of the people and they can able to login inside the application and give data...and I Checked their entries are presented over deep1-Sever mdb file. But some of us cannot login since, the network could not find the path deep1. So its not logging in. But if they try with the servers ip address they can go inside. But the problem is the server's ip address will change dynamically. So in code i cannot give ipaddress also. So only that I have given the system name. The persons who are all in different subnet in network cannot able to access with system name. Can anyone please help me out. I m very thankful to you. Thanks in advance, Regards
aaraaayen wrote:
This is working fine for some of the people and they can able to login inside the application and give data
This is because those user cannot resolve the name
deep1. They have some netowkring issue that prevents them from resolving that name, either a DNS problem or WINS.aaraaayen wrote:
But some of us cannot login since, the network could not find the path deep1. So its not logging in. But if they try with the servers ip address they can go inside. But the problem is the server's ip address will change dynamically. So in code i cannot give ipaddress also. So only that I have given the system name.
If you can't resolve the name normally using DNS or WINS, there is nothing you can do to get the dynamic IP address. The methods you would use are the very methods that are failing now. You have some kind of name resolution problem on this network. It's up to the network's administrators to solve this problem.
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Hi Friends, I have developed one application in vb 6.0 with msaccess as backend. I am using the following Connection string. Conn.ConnectionString = "Provider=Microsoft.Jet.OLEDB.4.0; Data Source=\\deep1\overtime log\Overtime Log\Data\OT_Log.mdb" In the above line, deep1 is the server name(System name) where the database mdb file is located. the folder overtime log is shared folder. I packed the application and installing in others system. This is working fine for some of the people and they can able to login inside the application and give data...and I Checked their entries are presented over deep1-Sever mdb file. But some of us cannot login since, the network could not find the path deep1. So its not logging in. But if they try with the servers ip address they can go inside. But the problem is the server's ip address will change dynamically. So in code i cannot give ipaddress also. So only that I have given the system name. The persons who are all in different subnet in network cannot able to access with system name. Can anyone please help me out. I m very thankful to you. Thanks in advance, Regards
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