Re: Browsers on terminal server
| From: | John W. Holmes | Date: | Thu, 05 Aug 2004 14:43:14 +0000 |
| Subject: | Re: Browsers on terminal server | ||
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From: "Lester Caine" <lester@lsces.co.uk>
> I am using
> $_SERVER["REMOTE_ADDR"]
> to get address of the browser accessing the system and then using
> gethostbyaddr() to get the machine name.
>
> This worked great until I came to a site using M$ Terminal Server to
> provide the terminals. We still need to know what machine we are talking
> to, so we can identify the room, and flag the correct set of displays,
> but $_SERVER["REMOTE_ADDR"] seems to be giving only the IP address of
> the TS machine.
>
> Anybody been here already. Is it possible to identify the terminal that
> is browsing on the other side of TS. Any pointers to some help to
> restore operation in this situation.
I really doubt it. I'd recommend searching MSDN for some answers. If it was
available to PHP, you'd see it on a phpinfo() screen or somewhere in
$_SERVER, but I doubt it is.
---John Holmes...