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Automatic Location Determination? #197952 17/04/08 02:48 PM
Joined: Mar 2004 Posts: 27 Sacramento, CA A AltReality OP Ameglian cow
OP AltReality Ameglian cow A Joined: Mar 2004 Posts: 27 Sacramento, CA	[Sorry for the cross-post, I think this is the more appropriate group for this question, mods feel free to delete the one in mIRC Help] Hi All... Is there any way to set an On LOAD event that will determine the current hostmask? It seems that mIRC can't determine the hostmask without being connected to a server. Basically, I run mIRC from a flash drive from multiple computers. I would like to automatically determine which computer I am working on at the time, and automatically set the firewall options. I can do most of the work I think, but the on load question of which computer I'm using is a little tricky. Thanks, AltReality

Re: Automatic Location Determination? AltReality #197956 17/04/08 04:45 PM
Joined: Dec 2002 Posts: 3,138 London, UK C Collective Hoopy frood
Collective Hoopy frood C Joined: Dec 2002 Posts: 3,138 London, UK	If you just want to know which computer you're on (regardless of the exact hostmask) you could use other system metrics, such as $os and $disk(). Other information is available via $com and WMI, though that may be overkill. If the hostname is important you could use sockets to connect to http://checkip.dyndns.com/ or a similar site.

Re: Automatic Location Determination? Collective #197958 17/04/08 05:02 PM
Joined: Mar 2004 Posts: 27 Sacramento, CA A AltReality OP Ameglian cow
OP AltReality Ameglian cow A Joined: Mar 2004 Posts: 27 Sacramento, CA	Thanks for the response! You are correct that the hostmask itself is not really important, but I can't think of any other truly unique identifying information that can be accessed while mIRC is not connected to a server. Will sockets work without a connection to an IRC server? $os is the same on all computers I am using.. not sure how I would use $disk... I don't know much about $com objects...any thoughts on how that could be used to uniquely identify a computer? (computer name? External IP? hostmask? ) Thanks again

Re: Automatic Location Determination? AltReality #197960 17/04/08 06:06 PM
Joined: Dec 2002 Posts: 2,031 R RoCk Hoopy frood
RoCk Hoopy frood R Joined: Dec 2002 Posts: 2,031	Could you use the NetInfo alias from this COMllection snippet to get the UserName or ComputerName ? Code: alias NetInfo { .comopen inf WScript.Network var %r = $com(inf,$1,3) if (%r) %r = $com(inf).result .comclose inf return %r } //echo -a $netinfo(UserName) //echo -a $netinfo(ComputerName)

Re: Automatic Location Determination? RoCk #197963 17/04/08 06:53 PM
Joined: Mar 2004 Posts: 27 Sacramento, CA A AltReality OP Ameglian cow
OP AltReality Ameglian cow A Joined: Mar 2004 Posts: 27 Sacramento, CA	Awesome..that is exactly what I needed. Thanks for your help! -AltReality

Re: Automatic Location Determination? AltReality #197967 17/04/08 07:42 PM
Joined: Oct 2004 Posts: 8,330 MA, USA Riamus2 Hoopy frood
Riamus2 Hoopy frood Joined: Oct 2004 Posts: 8,330 MA, USA	You'd use $disk to find total drive space. Typically the total number of bytes from computer to computer won't be the same. This can be true even when both computers both have the same size hard drive. Using COM is still going to be the most accurate method, though it really is a bit of an overkill for what you need. Keep in mind that certain COM events don't work in all versions of Windows, so depending what OS you're using, you may run into problems. Invision Support #Invision on irc.irchighway.net

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