start application on another PC

[lespaul]

Here's the situation:

On each floor of the courthouse there are 4 courtrooms; outside of each courtroom is a monitor mounted in the wall.

In the communication closet of each floor are two PCs with dual monitor cards. Each PC runs two of the monitors outside of the courtrooms. There is no monitor, mouse or keyboard attached to these PCs, all access is done remotely (currently through LanDesk).

I have a program called "Display Docket" which displays each courtrooms' docket (court calendar) on the monitor outside the courtroom. Each courtroom has a folder on the network drive where the "Display Docket" application lives and an ini file with the parameters for that courtroom.

Is it possible to write a Delphi application that I can have on my machine that will run the Display Docket program on the remote PC?

I am working on developing a small utility application to allow the users access to the Display Docket program and modify the scrolling caption or change the search criteria and hopefully the ability to stop and restart the program if needed.

Thanks for any info!

les

 

[BobbaFet]

Instead of re-inventing the wheel you could use this:

http://www.radmin.com/

It's pretty cheap and works like a charm!

BobbaFet

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[Griffyn]

Or VNC, which is free.

http://www.realvnc.com/

 

[lespaul]

Thanks! I'll check those out!

les

 

[lespaul]

So I looked at those, but they are both remote control programs. I want to be able to do something like from my utility program send a command line to the PC that needs to run the program.

So, I am working on a network PC named INFTCH03. I am running a program on my desktop that is on a network drive (R), the DisplayDocket application is in the same folder on the R drive that I am running the utility. From my PC, I want to send a command to JDADM07 to run the DisplayDocket Program. I don't want the users to have remote control of JDADM07, just start a program running on it.

Thanks!

leslie

 

[bbegley]

Can you set up a listener program that runs on the remote PCs, that executes DisplayDocket when it sees the network signal for it's machine?

You write a little exe that looks for X:\MachineName.txt, and when it sees it, it runs the DisplayDocket. On your PC, whenever you want to run the program, you pick a computername and generate the textfile.

Not very elegant, but it might work.

Brian
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[lespaul]

I check that out, thanks,

les