datasocket change ip address to computer name

[cmiranda]

Hi,

When I write data on the network, the IP address appears inplace of the computer name.  I would like to have it where the computer names appears instead of the IP address.  When the URL is dstp://computername/channelname . But on the data server the IP address appears and no computer name.

Any suggestions....

--claudia

[tst]

I'm not sure where you are seeing this, but if this is in your code then you can translate the IP address to the name by wiring the address into String to IP and wiring the result into IP to String (both can be found in the TCP palette). You should then get the computer name.

[cmiranda]

Attached is an example of what I'd like to see on the Datasocket Diagonistic.  The funny part is that I am using the computer name for the URL of the datasocket read & write.

[tst]

You probably can't. The DS server is a seperate program and it doesn't seem like it has an option for this. As I said, you can write a simple program in LV to run at the same time and translate it or even do it through Windows, although I don't think you can get the addresses automatically.