Re: HELP!!! need to get windows Computer name, workgroup via AS/400.

Bob, Gerald,

Windows 95/98 provide an API called "GetComputerName" that will give you the
NetBIOS name of the computer. It's very simple to code to, and is documented
in the MSDN library.

I've never needed to fetch the workgroup/domain name, so I don't have an API
for you, but you should be able to easily find the location of this
information by searching the registry.

The original question asked if it was possible to get this data from the
AS/400. Since you have the IP address, you should be able to do a reverse
DNS lookup for the host name of the PC, but I don't know of any way that you
could get the workgroup/domain name directly from an AS400 program.

Regards,

John Taylor
Canada

----- Original Message -----
From: "Bob Crothers" <bob@cstoneindy.com>
To: <MIDRANGE-L@midrange.com>
Sent: Wednesday, October 11, 2000 16:02
Subject: RE: HELP!!! need to get windows Computer name, workgroup via
AS/400.


> Knowing how hard it is to get this information when your program is
actually
> running under Win95/98, I would be surprised if you can get it on the
> AS/400.
>
> Under WinNT/2K, this is very easy to get.  But under Win95/98, it is not
> available in the 32bit world...you have to drop into 16bit mode (which
> sucks).
>
> I'd love to find out I'm wrong.
>
> BTW, I haven't actually tried to get the computer name...that is probably
> available via the registry.  But the domain/workgroup name?  Nope.
>
> Regards,
> Bob Crothers
>
> -----Original Message-----
> From: owner-midrange-l@midrange.com
[mailto:owner-midrange-l@midrange.com]On
> Behalf Of Gerald Magnuson
> Sent: Wednesday, October 11, 2000 7:48 AM
> To: MIDRANGE-L@midrange.com
> Subject: HELP!!! need to get windows Computer name, workgroup via AS/400.
>
> Can I get the PC computer name, and workgroup it is in, from the
> AS/400?
>
> I am able to get an IP address for a device description, but if I
> could get more info about the PC it would help me greatly.
>
>
> Thank you.
>
> Gerald Magnuson
> The Knapheide Manufacturing Company
>
>
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