Re: [OT] Identify web user in intranet

2005-02-11 Thread PA
On Feb 11, 2005, at 10:29, Duncan Mills wrote: Unfashionable as they are, applets do have their uses. Perhaps. But this is really something which good, old DNS can easily solve. There is a plethora of more or less obsolete record types dealing with identity and location: GPOS, HINFO, LOC, TXT, et

Re: [OT] Identify web user in intranet

2005-02-11 Thread Duncan Mills
You could always write a Java applet that inspects the machine in some way and launches the correct page in the browser. I assume that, in this case the machines don't get moved much, so a simple configuration file could be used to indicate the correct location. Unfashionable as they are, applet

Re: [OT] Identify web user in intranet

2005-02-10 Thread Ashish Kulkarni
Hi Thanx for all the information, i can now try to find a solution using one of the ways Ashish --- PA <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > On Feb 10, 2005, at 16:44, PA wrote: > > > Well... there is no simply solution to this > problem... to make matter > > worst, you have dynamic IP address... sig

Re: [OT] Identify web user in intranet

2005-02-10 Thread PA
On Feb 10, 2005, at 16:44, PA wrote: Well... there is no simply solution to this problem... to make matter worst, you have dynamic IP address... sigh... Couple of options: Forgot one more option: - If your are in a Windows environment, you could leverage information from CIFS's UniAddress. Chee

Re: [OT] Identify web user in intranet

2005-02-10 Thread PA
On Feb 09, 2005, at 21:39, Ashish Kulkarni wrote: Is there any thing unique to identify the client machine(desktop) other then IP address? I have a situtation where in my intranet, i need to identify the machine uniquely and do some processing, But the problem is that we dont haev static IP address

Re: [OT] Identify web user in intranet

2005-02-10 Thread Ashish Kulkarni
Hi This is not the exact requirement to display floor plan, i have production line in factory and the worker needs to know his production plan for that, and he is not allowed to touch the screen or enter book mark, this is very crucial to display the correct line, or else he will end up manufactor

Re: [OT] Identify web user in intranet

2005-02-10 Thread Jeff Beal
If I were to be given this requirement, I'd just create a bookmark with the appropriate floor number on each computer. For computers on the fourth floor, I'd create a bookmark 'http://somecomputer/showmap?floor=4'. I think that the problem of mapping dynamically allocated IP addresses to comp

Re: [OT] Identify web user in intranet

2005-02-10 Thread Ashish Kulkarni
Hi thanx for the mail, here is my problem we have machines installed on different floors of building, and we have to design a web page which will give floor plan and display it on that machine browser, so if the machine is on 4th floor we want to display the plan of fourth floor, if the machine had

Re: [OT] Identify web user in intranet

2005-02-10 Thread brenmcguire
There is the MAC address, but only if you are connected to the same switch/hub. Otherwise, it will fail because the MAC address is usually the one of the default gateway. The big big problem is that almost everything can be spoofed. IP address can be spoofed (well at least the response never arrive

[OT] Identify web user in intranet

2005-02-09 Thread Ashish Kulkarni
Hi Is there any thing unique to identify the client machine(desktop) other then IP address? I have a situtation where in my intranet, i need to identify the machine uniquely and do some processing, But the problem is that we dont haev static IP address, but dynamic IP address. I want to display a p