You have me thinking (not a good thing on most days :-D ) I would have to write a WMI "provider" in C I have an example to look at but... I haven't looked at C for years, this could take a while... Sam Nate Carlson wrote: >On Thu, 7 Apr 2005, Adam Maloney wrote: > > >>Now if you could make it listen on a port and spit that out over the >>network when a particular IP address connects, I'd have most of what I >>need for a Windows hostmon client for NOCOL. >> >> > >Hmm.. need inetd for Windows. :) > > >