Running an exe on a remote machine

[Liz]

Greetings.

Again, I'm hoping I'm answering an absurdly simple
question. My current situation is this: I have an .exe
file that contains numerous Shell commands that run an
external program that exists only on a specific production
machine. Various users on my network will need to be able
to activate this executable from their own desktops, as
they cannot have access to the physical machine with the
software or VNC access. Being new to the .NET environment
(and to Visual Basic), I'm not entirely sure how to make
the call to the .exe on the production machine such that
the executable will run on it's host machine and not on
the calling machine.

Do I need to investigate .NET Remoting, or is there a
simple solution to my problem?

Thanks in Advance.
Liz

[CJ Taylor]

Hi Liz,

You cannot execute the executable just through the UNC path otherwise it
will make a local copy and execute from there.

So remoting is an option of course. If you want to kinda make it easy on
yourself, I would use a windows service to ensure the application is
executed on your production machine, basically call the service and tell it
to do something (this is actually a pretty good instance of webservices I
think) and then if you want something back, you can get it.

Hope it helps.

-CJ
"Liz" <ch*********@earthlink.net> wrote in message
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Greetings.

Again, I'm hoping I'm answering an absurdly simple
question. My current situation is this: I have an .exe
file that contains numerous Shell commands that run an
external program that exists only on a specific production
machine. Various users on my network will need to be able
to activate this executable from their own desktops, as
they cannot have access to the physical machine with the
software or VNC access. Being new to the .NET environment
(and to Visual Basic), I'm not entirely sure how to make
the call to the .exe on the production machine such that
the executable will run on it's host machine and not on
the calling machine.

Do I need to investigate .NET Remoting, or is there a
simple solution to my problem?

Thanks in Advance.
Liz

[Liz]

Thanks, CJ. A Windows service it is.

Liz

-----Original Message-----
Hi Liz,

You cannot execute the executable just through the UNC path otherwise itwill make a local copy and execute from there.

So remoting is an option of course. If you want to kinda make it easy onyourself, I would use a windows service to ensure the application isexecuted on your production machine, basically call the service and tell itto do something (this is actually a pretty good instance of webservices Ithink) and then if you want something back, you can get it.
Hope it helps.

-CJ
"Liz" <ch*********@earthlink.net> wrote in message
news:01****************************@phx.gbl...

Greetings.

Again, I'm hoping I'm answering an absurdly simple
question. My current situation is this: I have an .exe
file that contains numerous Shell commands that run an
external program that exists only on a specific production machine. Various users on my network will need to be able to activate this executable from their own desktops, as
they cannot have access to the physical machine with the
software or VNC access. Being new to the .NET environment (and to Visual Basic), I'm not entirely sure how to make
the call to the .exe on the production machine such that
the executable will run on it's host machine and not on
the calling machine.

Do I need to investigate .NET Remoting, or is there a
simple solution to my problem?

Thanks in Advance.
Liz

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