This is a big PITA, because you have to determine the NIC's ID in the registry, if that's where you'd like to get the value. I've done this in the past, but my method was pretty flakey, if you ask me. It seems to work though. IIRC correctly, I believe what I did depended on remote command execution using rcmd.exe from the ResKit. I'd copy out a .vbs file to the machine and execute it. Let me see if I can find it... Okay, here are some vbscript functions that may get you somewhere. Maybe not though! Function ReturnAdapterName(iNicNum) '''HKLM\HARDWARE\OWNERMAP\PCI_0_a '''HKLM\Software\Microsoft\Windows NT\CurrentVersion\NetworkCards\[#]\ServiceName '''Only 99% certain that NIC1 will be the appropriate NIC 'On Error Resume Next Dim sResult, oShell Set oShell = CreateObject("WScript.Shell") sResult = oShell.RegRead("HKLM\Software\Microsoft\Windows NT\CurrentVersion\NetworkCards\" & iNicNum & "\ServiceName") If sResult = "" Then sResult = "Unknown" ReturnAdapterName = sResult End Function Function ReturnOS() Dim sOS, oShell ''On Error Resume Next ReturnOS = "Unknown" Set oShell = CreateObject("WScript.Shell") Err.Clear sOS=UCase(oShell.RegRead("HKLM\SOFTWARE\Microsoft\Windows NT\CurrentVersion\CurrentBuildNumber")) If Err.Number <> 0 Then Set oShell = Nothing Exit Function End If Select Case sOS Case "2600" : ReturnOS="XP" Case "2195" : ReturnOS="2000" Case "1381" : ReturnOS="NT" End Select Set oShell = Nothing End Function Function ReturnNicNames(sOS) Dim oShell Set oShell = CreateObject("WScript.Shell") oShell.Run "regedit /E " & NIC_DUMP_FILE & " ""HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE\Microsoft\Windows NT\CurrentVersion\NetworkCards""", , True Set oShell = Nothing '''reg dumped '''parse Dim aResult() Redim Preserve aResult(-1) Dim oFSO, oFile, i, sLine, aLine Set oFSO = CreateObject("Scripting.FileSystemObject") If oFSO.FileExists(NIC_DUMP_FILE) Then If UCase(sOS) = "NT" Then Set oFile = oFSO.OpenTextFile(NIC_DUMP_FILE, 1, 0) Else Set oFile = oFSO.OpenTextFile(NIC_DUMP_FILE, 1, ,-1) End If For i = 1 To 4 oFile.SkipLine Next Do While Not oFile.AtEndOfStream sLine = UCase(oFile.ReadLine) If Instr(sLine, "[HKEY") = 1 Then '''card num found sLine = Replace(sLine, "]", "") aLine = Split(sLine, "\") If UCase(aLine(UBound(aLine)-1)) = "NETWORKCARDS" Then Redim Preserve aResult(UBound(aResult) + 1) aResult(UBound(aResult)) = aLine(UBound(aLine)) End If End If Loop oFile.Close Set oFile = Nothing End If Set oFSO = Nothing ReturnNicNames = aResult End Function Once you can ID the NIC in the registry, you can grab the gateway from DefaultGateway in HKLM\System\CurrentControlSet\Tcpip\Parameters\Interfaces\[NIC ID]\DefaultGateway Ray at work > -----Original Message----- > From: windows2000-bounce@xxxxxxxxxxxxx > [mailto:windows2000-bounce@xxxxxxxxxxxxx] > Sent: Thursday, October 02, 2003 11:56 AM > To: windows2000@xxxxxxxxxxxxx > Subject: [windows2000] remotely get network settings on Win2k machines > > > I've been tasked with getting some network settings off a > sample of machines across a statewide WAN. 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