Detecting OS version on LAN computers

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From: nicolasr (nicolasrNOSPAMATSIGNgmx.net)
Date: 03/30/04 

Date: Wed, 31 Mar 2004 01:06:12 +0200

Hi,

I'm trying to detect the Windows version of computers in a LAN
using NetServerEnum(). This function returns a structure for each
computer that contains a platform ID. According to the SDK help
this ID can be one of the following:

PLATFORM_ID_DOS
PLATFORM_ID_OS2
PLATFORM_ID_NT
PLATFORM_ID_OSF
PLATFORM_ID_VMS

For a Win98 machine the returned ID is PLATFORM_ID_OS2.
I'm wondering whether this is how it's supposed to be??

I need to tell NT/2K/XP from 95/98/ME machines. Which IDs I
must check for?

Any comment welcome!
Nick

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