Hi Lester,

Lester Caine wrote:

> At present, the users log in 'manually', but I need to know
> which machine they are logging on from, so that I can make
> the correct announcement. Each machine is a counter
> location, and I've been through adding the number to the
> logon and setting cookies but I'm looking for a better
> method. I need to go on and also restrict access from
> machines that do not provide counter functions, and set them
> up with back-office functions instead.

if the client machines have their own ip adresses the $variables
$_SERVER['REMOTE_ADDR'] and/or $_SERVER['HTTP_X_FORWARDED_FOR'] could be
usefull.

hth,
Lutz
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