Find Out Computer's IP Address Remotely?

[Diggy]

I regularly use Remote Desktop to connect to a computer at work, however the
IP address of this computer keeps changing without my knowing it. Is there
a way to check a remote computer's IP address without actually having
someone sit in front of the computer?

 

[Papa Frank]

Check out www.dns4me.com

it will solve the problem

 

[sam sahimi]

You need to give your router an static ip address...and do
the same for your computer that you are connecting to...
call yor isp and get static number...its not that
expensive.

 

[Steve Carr]

you would need to ask your Network Admins to assign that machine a static IP
address or have DHCP reserve an IP for it so it is always the same (or you
can make sure the machine is always left on).
There is no way to find out what the IP is remotely unless your Network
Admins give you access to an internal DNS server that dynamically updates
the IP address to match the name so that you could always use the DNS name
to get there

 

[Diggy]

I've been looking for a little utility that would email me everytime the IP
address changed. I think that should be possible, but I haven't found a
good utility yet. I found this thing called MonsterIP, but I can't get the
thing to send an email . . .

--
ICQ#
| you would need to ask your Network Admins to assign that machine a static
IP
| address or have DHCP reserve an IP for it so it is always the same (or you
| can make sure the machine is always left on).
| There is no way to find out what the IP is remotely unless your Network
| Admins give you access to an internal DNS server that dynamically updates
| the IP address to match the name so that you could always use the DNS name
| to get there
|
| | > I regularly use Remote Desktop to connect to a computer at work, however
| the
| > IP address of this computer keeps changing without my knowing it. Is
| there
| > a way to check a remote computer's IP address without actually having
| > someone sit in front of the computer?
| >
| > --
| > ICQ#
| >
|
|

 

[Steve Carr]

well if you want to go that route, do you know any scripting (ex: VBS)? You
could set up a scheduled task on your machine that runs a script file that
gets output from ipconfig, puts it into a text file, makes a connection to
your corporate smtp server, and then sends you the output as an attachment.
You could run that every morning or something like that. That would do it
nicely.

 

[Bill Sanderson]

Along these lines:

1) if it is your machine, maybe a simple command-line email app such as BLAT
using a scheduled job to send an email message once an hour or whatever to
you. Clunky, but it works.

2) Better--leave Eudora (or some other email app capable of auto-responding)
up and running and send an email message to an address monitored and set for
autoresponding.

The address is in the headers of pop3/smtp email.