jayceepoo Posted September 8, 2004 Posted September 8, 2004 I have a question for anyone that may be able to help me. I'm working on a few programs for a friend's business. One program (we'll call it program a) checks a network drive for certain files on a local pc and compares them to the files on the network drive. If there are newer files on the network drive, the files on the local machine are replaced with the newer ones. After this is done, program a then starts up the main program that all employees use for daily tasks. The other program (program b) is supposed to check the network drive for a newer version of program a. Program b is supposed to be located on the network drive, and run from the network. So if program a has a more updated version on the network drive, it will be downloaded. This series of events starts when the user clicks a shortcut on their desktop. The shortcut is pointing to the program on the network drive. The program on the network drive should check for newer versions of program a. Program b should start program a on the users pc, then close itself down. Basically, I want to know if there is a way to start a program on a client machine from the server (so that the program on the server starts a program on a PC). Hope I explained it in a way thats easy to understand. Thanks for the help. Quote
music7611 Posted September 8, 2004 Posted September 8, 2004 There probably isn't for security reasons. One thing you can do is have a program on the client that has a connection with a program on a server. When the server sends the client a message, the client starts up the program it needs to run. Quote
jayceepoo Posted September 8, 2004 Author Posted September 8, 2004 There probably isn't for security reasons. One thing you can do is have a program on the client that has a connection with a program on a server. When the server sends the client a message' date=' the client starts up the program it needs to run.[/quote'] Thanks for the reply... I thought that there would be some issues regarding security, but I figured that I should ask anyway. I'd like to hear anyone elses take on this. Thanks. Quote
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