Excel VBD DDEInitiate problem

[bbombardier]

Hi there,

I'am using a script with the DDEInitiate command.

The DDE communication is over a network and it's working fine.

My command look's like this;

Channel = DDEInitiate ("\\PCName\ApplName","Topic")

I want to put the IP adress instead of the PCName ex:

Channel = DDEInitiate ("\\10.131.34.5\ApplName","Topic")

This is not working, why ????

Any idea someone.

Thank

 

[Bill Renaud]

Did you search the MSDN Library for "Network DDE"?
http://search.microsoft.com/search/results.aspx?qu=Network+DDE&View=msdn&st=b&c=4&s=2

 

[pgerrish]

In my experience:

The first step I use when trying to initiate a DDE conversation is to
make sure I can ping the computer name, that is acting as the DDE
server.

Computer names have to be resolved to IP adresses thru a DNS or WINS
server. I have tried to resolve names using a host file - which will
resolve the name under a ping statement but will not work to resolve
the name under DDE.

Good luck