I need some advice- Create/Kill process information - Please read

[Troy T]

I need the ability (and I am unsure of how to accomplish this task) to start an application on a remote computer. The remote computer is running Windows NT server 4.0, and all clients will be NT machines.

Basically, I need some direction here. I have never attempted this, and I'm not sure what is the best road to take to accomplish this task. I am very familiar with C++, and MFC so that'll help. But admittedly I haven't used every single class in the library so I don't know if there is something there to help me accomplish this goal.

Can you help give me some direction? Thanks in advance.. :)

- Troy

[Alvaro]

I imagine that you'll need all your client machines to run some NT Service so the server can send them the requests to execute the application(s).

If I were you I'd spend some time searching the web for NT apps/services that do what you need.

Where I currently work they use an application from Tivoli (http://www.tivoli.com) which does this and more. It actually "pushes" software onto the client machines. So if tomorrow the programmers need a new version of VC++, it just gets pushed onto their machines rather than having someone go to each machine to individually upgrade it. That's cool!

Good luck!

Alvaro

[deano]

Consider using rsh or rexec

Carl