I am looking to find all DBISAM servers on a LAN and load into a list. Anything already
written that does this?

Dave M

Dave,

<< I am looking to find all DBISAM servers on a LAN and load into a list.
Anything already written that does this? >>

I don't believe there is anything available for such a task, and frankly,
I'm not exactly sure how you could write such an animal.  It would involve
using broadcasting, but I'm not sure if you could do it with the stock
DBISAM database server.

--
Tim Young
Elevate Software
www.elevatesoft.com

Hi Dave,

> I am looking to find all DBISAM servers on a LAN and load into a list. Anything already
> written that does this?

I'm not sure if this relates to what you're after but I use a modified
version of the DBISAM database server which has an option that will do a
 UDP broadcast on a specific port (not the DBISAM ones).  When
activated (it can be turned on and off), it broadcasts the server's IP
address and ports every 15 seconds, which are picked up by the client
application on the network.  Basically the client application
automatically configures itself to connect to the server.

HTH.

Regards,

SteveG

"Tim Young [Elevate Software]" <timyoung@elevatesoft.com> wrote in
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> I don't believe there is anything available for such a task, and
> frankly, I'm not exactly sure how you could write such an animal.  It
> would involve using broadcasting, but I'm not sure if you could do it
> with the stock DBISAM database server.

Netlab by Alexader Danileiko does a scan of a local network and picks up
any hosts listening on 12005 if you ask it to.

I'm sure you could do the same in Delphi (if you know what ports DBISAM is
using), perhaps using ICS?

--
Chris
(XP-Pro + Delphi 7 Architect + DBISAM 4.24 Build 1)

"Chris Erdal" <chris@No-Spam-erdal.net> wrote in message
news:Xns9844B6C9EA72014torcatis@64.65.248.118...
> "Tim Young [Elevate Software]" <timyoung@elevatesoft.com> wrote in
> news:F2883BF6-3D9B-4DB4-841A-645BD0101843@news.elevatesoft.com:
>
>
>> I don't believe there is anything available for such a task, and
>> frankly, I'm not exactly sure how you could write such an animal.  It
>> would involve using broadcasting, but I'm not sure if you could do it
>> with the stock DBISAM database server.
>
> Netlab by Alexader Danileiko does a scan of a local network and picks up
> any hosts listening on 12005 if you ask it to.
>
> I'm sure you could do the same in Delphi (if you know what ports DBISAM is
> using), perhaps using ICS?

I'd like to know how to do this with ICS. Seems like a nice little utility
function to have.

function DBISAMServersOnLAN(const PortNumber:Integer):TStringList;
begin
 // other stuff needed here
end;

It may not relate to what he is looking for, but I certainly would like
a feature exactly as you have described. Anything you can post?

Regards,

Jason Lee

Steve Gill wrote:
> I'm not sure if this relates to what you're after but I use a modified
> version of the DBISAM database server which has an option that will do a
>  UDP broadcast on a specific port (not the DBISAM ones).  When activated
> (it can be turned on and off), it broadcasts the server's IP address and
> ports every 15 seconds, which are picked up by the client application on
> the network.  Basically the client application automatically configures
> itself to connect to the server.

Hi Jason,

> It may not relate to what he is looking for, but I certainly would like
> a feature exactly as you have described. Anything you can post?

Sent you some code via email.

Regards,

SteveG

Thank you!


Steve Gill wrote:
> Hi Jason,
>
>> It may not relate to what he is looking for, but I certainly would
>> like a feature exactly as you have described. Anything you can post?
>
> Sent you some code via email.
>
> Regards,
>
> SteveG

"Steve Gill" <v8steve@gmail.com> wrote in message news:BFC0548E-0DE3-4491-A883-A7592C88E264@news.elevatesoft.com...
> Hi Jason,
>
>> It may not relate to what he is looking for, but I certainly would like a feature exactly as you have described. Anything you can
>> post?
>
> Sent you some code via email.
>
> Regards,
>
> SteveG


Steve

please post it to the Binaries group  elevatesoft.public.dbisam.binaries
then we can all share the glee.

gregF