Just a thought

Issue command 'PING 127.0.0.1'

A reply, TCP/IP installed

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Paul Reeves wrote:

>
> Jill Thomson wrote:
>
> > Take a clean computer. Do not install a network card. Network Neighborhood
> > will not be installed. Reject Windows' suggestion to enter a user name and
> > password. The computer will not have an IP address, or a name.
> >
> > Is there a function that can be run to detect this condition? As the hosts
> > file will not exist (only as hosts.sam) we can test for that.
>
> Absence of a hosts file, of course just indicates that the tcp/ip stack is not
> installed, not that networking is unavailable. You could try to see if the
> COMPUTERNAME environment variable is set. You could also play around with the
> NET commands. But it is a long time since I used a non-networked PC (or Win9n,
> for that matter) so I have no idea what to expect under those conditions.
>
> Paul
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