Re: Browsers on terminal server

From: 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...

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