Determine if PC online

[djwatts]

Hi,

does anyone know the best way to determine if a pc is switched on.

Some sort of ping, is there a quick way to do this???

 

[ettienne]

I used the DIR command to check for a file, any file in a shared folder will do.

 

[johnwm]

For ping see faq222-607

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[toon10]

Do a search on the net for "ping scanner visual basic". I searched for something like this a few years back for a previous company and got some source code to modify. I built a ping scanner for the company network out of it. The system prompted you to enter an ip address, computer name or ip range and it would ping the range and drop the results in a dataqgrid (or Excel after I added that option)

It worked well. I may have it on an old cd at home somewhere?

There are lots of API's to reference so I don't think you can do what you want easily (i.e. a simpkle command or two).