Computer question * boring & techy! *

stephenperry wrote: thanks  im just about to upload the script and ill need some help trying it out one thing has struck me though, because my ip is dynamic and "sperry.serveftp.com" is done through a dynamic dns service, wont that always show up as online?  or am i being thick? (no suprise there lol)

thorough testing (with thanks to p0dy for his patience! ) has led to the conclusion that ping will be no use... on the other hand, this works a treat...

telnet

open sperry.serveftp.com 21

gives just the right relevant results (connect or cant connect)... only problem is how to call these commands from php or asp, p**** the results and act accordingly

maybe i should just get myself a different isp, one that offers static ip addresses with their adsl accounts

pma1ums wrote: aha    thanks its now alive and kicking ps can i send you loads of blank dvd s so i  can be lazy and not have to download  a lot of the stuff i would like to be on a hard copy....then i could subject her to some of them too pps  if theres anything you need making in steel ....its sorted  ..does that bit help as an extra blag???

nae probs, if you send a box of dvd+r's ill burn you the whole collection

oh, and i wouldn't mind a strut brace if you're offering lol

What the heck does this mean....

NDIS i/o driver blocked

Keeps flashing up on this pooter screen and its driving me nutz

you can upload to the UPLOADS/VIDEOS and UPLOADS/PICTURES directories only, it will produce an access denied message if you try and upload to any other directory, including the main one (this is so i can check the uploads first to see if they are complete, rename if necessary etc.)

the script of mine pings sperry.serveftp.com and not the IP addy so it should be fine.
The script can be easily modified (it is just a call to a php function). Stephen - are you uploading the script to your own server?

Stephen, Im still looking at ways of helping your ftp server out, is this script of kbannons able to be customised, if i was to have an image of all the files on your server,  I dont mind leaving mine on during the day and once its running then im intending leaving it up, so extra bandwidth will be available in evenings as well.

 

pma1ums wrote: mr perry evertime i try to click on your link it allways shows up .page cannot be displayed ..i tried a few months back and got the same???????? i use xp and aol 9 for net access

you're doing it at the wrong times, if you tried anytime between 11:30 last night and 7:20pm this evening you would get that page cannot be displayed error cos the computer is not on, hence the server isnt running, try it now - i bet it works

this is why i made this topic to try and find a solution to make it a bit more obvious that the server is not running

I assume you now have no wrinkly bits left on your thingy, Stephen?

Must be far more comfy to sit on now then.....



soz but couldn't resist one little teeny weeny chuckle there.....

i getting offline messages and can't open it but a cmd / ping returns ok with an average of 65ms.

WRT the files, do you want ASP or PHP (better!).

I have also created two images and set the script to ping your server. If offline then it shows an offline pic and an online one if its on. The file can be found @ http://www.bmwmovies.net/sp_ping/image.php [unfortunatley the forum software doesn't allow php images but I could hack it into your sig directly in the database!
The php files are attached here [Ping.zip]
The asp code is below:-

code wrote: <% option explicit function ping(arg)   with Server.createobject("wscript.shell")     ping = Not CBool(.run("ping -n 1 " & arg,0,true))   end with end function if ping("sperry.serveftp.com") = True then    Response.Redirect("ftp://sperry.serveftp.com") else Response.Redirect("server_down_page.asp") end if %>

I think it works!

my programmings a bit rusty, i only have decent experience of C, C++ and VB and that was a few years ago now