Oops! Ramy obviously knows there IS a discovery mechanism! Teme, disregard me on that one!

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Ramy - I was just going off of the OP, which said:

If there's some sort of mechanism built into MSSQL or MySQL that allows enumeration over a LAN without prior knowledge of a server's IP address,...

These guys are right... Access will work on a very, very limited basis, but doesn't really qualify as a true database solution. We use MySQL for our projects, and it performs very well, plus it has...