On Sep 19, 2007, at 12:32 PM, Chuck Pelto wrote: > How can I get the state of another Mac machine on the network? I.e., > It's in SLEEP or it's OFF? > Sleep would be the same as on or off depending if the machine is setup to wake up for network events. As for determining On or off, ping would probably be a good way to go. on pingem(aHost) try do shell script "ping -o " & aHost return true on error return false end try end pingem {pingem("localhost"), pingem("Doesnotexist")} {true, false} -Mark Who would be really concerned if he couldn't ping localhost