My Mother in law occasionally needs help with her computer (eMac 1Ghz) and we are trying to set up some remote help using Timbuktu Pro. I can control her screen while she watches (thus avoiding the dreaded trip to mom’s) Anyway, I need her IP address (she is on a cable modem with dynamic IP addressing) in order to connect. The simple solution is to write a script to get her IP address and email it to me. In 10.2.8 I write:
set the_script to “curl -s http://checkip.dyndns.org/ | sed ‘s/.body>Cur/Cur/’ | sed 's/<.$//’”
set my_IP to do shell script the_script
–display dialog my_IP
set the_message to "M-I-L’s " & my_IP
set the_sub to “M-I-L’s Current IP Address”
set the_sender to “Oh_My_No@what’sanipaddress.com”
tell application “Mail”
set k to make new outgoing message with properties {subject:the_sub, content:the_message}
tell k to make new to recipient at end of to recipients with properties {address:the_sender}
send k
end tell
The problem is that she is OS-X averse, and won’t consider switching from 9.2.2. I have been totally in the dark as to a solution. She currently sends email using Netscape 7.x, but I could certainly install any other classic mail app if necessary. I am not even sure how to reliably get the IP address in 9.2.
Thanks for looking!
Andy