William Hindman
wdhindman at bellsouth.net
Tue Aug 5 00:05:00 CDT 2003
...the MAC code uniquely identifies each computer on the network if thats what you're looking for ...take a look in the archives for sample code using it ...HTH :) William Hindman "You know the world is going crazy when the best rapper is a white guy, the best golfer is a black guy, The Swiss hold the America's Cup, France is accusing the US of arrogance, and Germany doesn't want to go to war." ----- Original Message ----- From: "Selina Iddon" <selina at easydatabases.com.au> To: "Access Developers discussion and problem solving" <accessd at databaseadvisors.com> Sent: Monday, August 04, 2003 11:26 PM Subject: [AccessD] Computer Identifier > Good Afternoon Everyone > > I am trying to confirm that a computer is eligible to open a distributed > .mde file by the startup screen first checking to see if it's identifier > exists in a separate password protected file. To do this I need to be able > to extract an unique identifier for each computer (say the Windows Registry > key or something). > > Can anyone offer a suggestion of a PC identifier to use and how I would > retrieve it using code? > > TIA > Cheers > Selina > > > _______________________________________________ > AccessD mailing list > AccessD at databaseadvisors.com > http://databaseadvisors.com/mailman/listinfo/accessd > Website: http://www.databaseadvisors.com