Originally Posted by malfunction Sounds interesting. If their only network connection is to JANET though (and that connection isn't working) how are you going to get the info off the student's PC? Will there be some kind of DMZ / public server the PC will still be able to post to? If the 'report' / output from the program is going to someone in the know though why don't you just send them the entire unedited output from "ipconfig /all" ?
If you're planning on emailing the data out it's nice and easy through CDO (I have some example VBScript code I can dig out for you if you like)
Hi
No there is no such setup in place. The idea is that the student runs the troubleshooting utility to try and solve the problem. If it fails to work, the program snaphots their NIC's MAC, their obtained IP address, link speed/ duplex settings, and other bits as well as the results of the troubleshooting walkthrough and dumps it into a file which the student then gets from their PC to a PC with an Internet connection using a USB drive/ floppy disc or whatever and e-mails it to the help desk. It's a tad primitive I know, but there is no other way of getting the file from their PC at present
As you have probably guessed, I am new to VB and WMI, WSH etc, but looking through VB's References menu, there is a WSH controller library, which I assume allows me to adapt WSH- based files to run in the VB window? If that is the case, I could have the script I originally posted dump the result into a .out file along with some other info to be sent to the help desk? Only problem is VB doesn't seem to let me adapt it to work
Ah well presuming that is what this library is designed to do, I will have another crack at it tomorrow.
Thanks