Network Configuration

This tip can help you determine if your computer is hosting spyware that sends your information to another server.

Use this to determine the names of your network interfaces and IPs. Of course, it can be used only for machines that have more than one network interface.

Returns the domain name Requires a reference to System.Management and the respective Imports

Returns the domain role Requires a reference to System.Management and the respective Imports

Returns the network availability Requires a reference to System.Management and the respective Imports

Return the array of IP addresses for the local host Note: Requires Imports System.Net Example: Dim ipa As IPAddress For Each ipa In GetLocalHostIpAddresses() Debug.WriteLine(ipa.ToString()) Next

Read the Ethernet address of a LAN card. This number can be considered to uniquely identify a network adapter

show the dialog to connect/disconnect a network disk If the argument is True it shows the ConnectDialog, otherwise it shows the Disconnect dialog the second argument is the hWnd of the parent dialog The function returns False if the dialog is canceled, True otherwise.

Return the name of the Primary Domain Controller (PDC) server names are preceded by a double slash

return the current default user name or the user name used to establish a connection

How can I add hundreds of users to the NT server by an automated procedure?

Why are Windows NT user profiles created with extensions of .000, .001, and so on?

Can I move 600+ users from a standalone server to a PDC with all rights and information intact, without having to recreate the users on the PDC?

How do I synchronize all NT 4 workstation system clocks on a network with a central point of contact?

I want to provide the facility to add/delete/modify Windows NT users from a remote browser. However, I don't know how to do it. Can you kindly help?

I would like to get the permissions for the users of my app. I have setup groups for users with the appropriate permisions. Now all I want to do is check which group they belong to, when they execute my app.

Can you please tell me how I can enable the sharing tab when sharing local drives? I'm using an NT Workstation 4.0 and when I'm logged on as an administrator, the sharing tab is present. But if I'm logged on as ordinary user, the sharing tab is NOT present. Can you please tell me how to enable this?

Converts a reference to a file in the standard Windows format (e.g. "H:\ServerDir\Filename.ext") in the corresponding UNC format (e.g. "\\ServerName\ExportedDir\ServerDir\FileName.txt") It turns to be very useful when a program running on a workstation has to pass a file reference to ...

How can I add a Share in Visual Basic to a Local or Remote Machine with permission only for a special User group?

Returns True if a Network is found (read-only)