
			     IP Detective Readme
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GENERAL INFORMATION:

IP Detective is designed primarily for IT professionals who need to keep track of dynamic IP 
addresses of computers they may need to access such as through PC anywhere.
IP Detective is designed to transfer a text file to a ftp sight if the IP address changes.
You must have access to a ftp site in order to make use of IP Detective.

INSTALLATIOIN:

Run Setup.exe. Accept all defaults or Chose another drive if you wish.

SETUP:

The only optional field in the interface is the 'Sub Folder' field. The application will not run if any
other fields are missing.

IP ADDRESS:
If the IP address is not visible in the IP address field then the applicationi has not been able to 
connect to the internet. Please makae sure you have an open internet connection and can see the IP
address displayed in thei field.

COMPUTER DESCRIPTION:
The application uses a dos script to transfer the file. The file that will be transfered to the ftp site 
will have the same name as the description with a '.txt' at the end. Because the script is run in dos,
the file name must be 8 charaqcters or less and follow all other dos file naming rules.

uSER NAME:
This is a valid user name for the ftp site. If you don't have one please congtact your ftp site administrator.

PASSWORD:
This is the passoword for the above user name.

URL OF THE FTP SITE:
This id the url of the same ftp site you have provided user name and password info for above.
eg. ftp.mysite.com

SUB FOLDER:
The file will be transfered to the root folder of the ftp site unless you specify a folder name here.

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			Email Module


CURRENT IP ADDRESS:

This field shows your current external ip address. If it is not visible then you do not have
a current connection to the internet. You must have an open internet connection for the program
to work. It must know your current ip address so that it will know when it changes in the future.

DESCRIPTION:

This is just a name for the computer on which the software is installed. This is in case you have
ip detective installed on more than one computer. Then you will know which one is reporting a change
in it's ip address.

USER NAME:

This is the user name for the default e-mail account on the computer that you installed IP Detective on.
IP Detective will use your default email account to send the notification.


PASSWORD:

This is the password for the default e-mail account on the computer as described above.


RECIPIENTS:

These are valid e-mail accounts like someone@somewhere.com

ALERT MESSAGE:

This will be the subject line of the e-mail alert.

START SYSTEM TRAY ICON:

Starts the IP Desktop viewer which will display your ip address on your desktop. 
This will show up as an icon in your system tray.

RUN TRAY ICON AT STARTUP:

This will launch the tray icon when you launch Windows(R).



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HOW TO AUTOMATE THE APPLICATION:

There is another executible file called IPDetect.exe that comes with the application.

Before you can automate the application you must run the program interface and fill in the fields
as described above and the click save settings.

This saves all your information and most importantly, your current IP address to a file.

Then you must set a secheuled task from Start--> Settings-->Control Pannel-->Scheduled Tasks.
You can set the program to run as often as you like. Once or twice a day should be sufficient.

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THE SCHEDULED TASK MUST POINT TO IPDetect.exe   NOT   IP Detective Interface.exe They will both be in the same
'IP Detective' folder in 'Program Files' on the drive you have selected to install the program on.

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This program will check the saved file and compare your current IP address to the one saved in the file and if 
your IP address has changed, a text file containing the new IP address will be sent to the ftp site.


CONTACT INFO:
For questions or comments please contact Myles Pang at:
mpang@ipdetective.ca
(403) 208-7997

