send ip at log on

[xlioilx]

I have a machine that I get files off of when I am not at my computer or on my lan that has ftp running
sometimes the ip number changes on this machine and i'm stuck driving all the way back home for the ip address what I was wondering is there a way to have this machine send the ip number to a hotmail account I was looking for the "out/send" folder for outlook express and could not find it anywhere I had planned on writing a batch file and putting it in the start up folder but this all seems like too much ill still have problems when the ip changes any help would be very very good

 

[anticore]

This may be a long way of doing it but it will work
Download NetMailBot from exclamationsoft.com and write a batch file that executes either on startup or through scheduler that has something like:

"c:\program files\netmailbot\netmailbot.exe" -body "IP address is: x.x.x.x" -to you@domain.com -from ftp@domain.com -server mail.server.com -subject "IP"

you could get the ip by parsing: ipconfig /Batch file.txt at the top of your batch or something like that
Hope this helps

 

[MattWray]

You might want to try

http://www.dns2go.com

They give you a free Domain name that will stay mapped to your changing IP... Matt Wray
CCNA, MCP
mwray77518@yahoo.com