getting ip address of ppcs server

[Jean Vallee]

Am slowly making progress in getting my ppcs server and app running but I am a db programmer and do not speak ip with any expertise. Simpol expects you to supply the ip address of the server so it know where the tables are. Since most times, I am shipping an installation CD, I will have no idea what the ip address will be. And because my users are well, users, and not server admins, they may not know either. Anyone have a code snippet (even one from SB) that I can use to look for the PPCS server and get its ip address to pass to the opendatasource command? Jean Vallee

[Jean Vallee]

On 5/15/2013 10:21 PM, JV wrote:
> Am slowly making progress in getting my ppcs server and app running but
> I am a db programmer and do not speak ip with any expertise.
>
> Simpol expects you to supply the ip address of the server so it know
> where the tables are.
>
> Since most times, I am shipping an installation CD, I will have no idea
> what the ip address will be. And because my users are well, users, and
> not server admins, they may not know either.
>
> Anyone have a code snippet (even one from SB) that I can use to look for
> the PPCS server and get its ip address to pass to the opendatasource
> command?
>
> Jean Vallee
Nevermind, I'm just going to insist they know this info and fill in
dialog and store it the info in a text file before proceeding.

[Michael]

On 17/05/2013 19:49, JV wrote:
> On 5/15/2013 10:21 PM, JV wrote:
>> Am slowly making progress in getting my ppcs server and app running but
>> I am a db programmer and do not speak ip with any expertise.
>>
>> Simpol expects you to supply the ip address of the server so it know
>> where the tables are.
>>
>> Since most times, I am shipping an installation CD, I will have no idea
>> what the ip address will be. And because my users are well, users, and
>> not server admins, they may not know either.
>>
>> Anyone have a code snippet (even one from SB) that I can use to look for
>> the PPCS server and get its ip address to pass to the opendatasource
>> command?
>>
>> Jean Vallee
> Nevermind, I'm just going to insist they know this info and fill in
> dialog and store it the info in a text file before proceeding.
>

This makes the most sense. All they need to do is to open a command prompt by running cmd, and then type in ipconfig to see what
their ip address is.

Ciao, Neil

[Jean Vallee]

On 5/20/2013 3:02 PM, Neil Robinson wrote:
> On 17/05/2013 19:49, JV wrote:
>> On 5/15/2013 10:21 PM, JV wrote:
>>> Am slowly making progress in getting my ppcs server and app running but
>>> I am a db programmer and do not speak ip with any expertise.
>>>
>>> Simpol expects you to supply the ip address of the server so it know
>>> where the tables are.
>>>
>>> Since most times, I am shipping an installation CD, I will have no idea
>>> what the ip address will be. And because my users are well, users, and
>>> not server admins, they may not know either.
>>>
>>> Anyone have a code snippet (even one from SB) that I can use to look for
>>> the PPCS server and get its ip address to pass to the opendatasource
>>> command?
>>>
>>> Jean Vallee
>> Nevermind, I'm just going to insist they know this info and fill in
>> dialog and store it the info in a text file before proceeding.
>>
>
> This makes the most sense. All they need to do is to open a command prompt by running cmd, and then type in ipconfig to see what
> their ip address is.
>
> Ciao, Neil
Sounds simple to you and me… but to my users.. they don't have a clue
what that means. command prompt, ipconfig might as well be a foreign
language they do not speak.

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