You could use Indy to do something like this where the service on the PC connects over the internet to the server on your box in your office and posts information to the DB. Only bummer would be the PC would have to be connected to the internet.
Check out the indy demos. Peter Speden -----Original Message----- From: vss [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Sent: Friday, 13 December 2002 12:24 p.m. To: Multiple recipients of list delphi Subject: Re: [DUG]: boss's lates idea should not be TOO hard to do. Just have a wee program running (hidden) on the machine, or if its on winnt, win 2k or XP boxes, running as a service, that emails a specific address that you can setup. You then have a program running on a mchine that checked that email address every whatever time interval you want, it then puts the data into a database. The other way, would require you to have a webserver on a machine at your work, and the progrma on the client machine HTTP POSTS the info to a webpage which puts it into a databse for you. Jeremy -----Original Message----- From: "Tracey Maule" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: Multiple recipients of list delphi <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Date: Fri, 13 Dec 2002 12:19:45 +1300 Subject: [DUG]: boss's lates idea > hi there > > My boss has had a wonderful idea for our latest system, which will > track our leased IT equipment. > > That is, a small program running on one machine (the leased computer) > which periodically tells a server (i am guessing over the internet) > that it exists and where it is. > > Can anyone get me pointed in the right direction for this? > > Tracey > Software Developer / Web Master > Logis > [EMAIL PROTECTED] > (025) 213-1065 > > ------------------------------------------------------------------------ --- New Zealand Delphi Users group - Delphi List - [EMAIL PROTECTED] Website: http://www.delphi.org.nz To UnSub, send email to: [EMAIL PROTECTED] with body of "unsubscribe delphi" Web Archive at: http://www.mail-archive.com/delphi%40delphi.org.nz/ --------------------------------------------------------------------------- New Zealand Delphi Users group - Delphi List - [EMAIL PROTECTED] Website: http://www.delphi.org.nz To UnSub, send email to: [EMAIL PROTECTED] with body of "unsubscribe delphi" Web Archive at: http://www.mail-archive.com/delphi%40delphi.org.nz/
