Remote Applications

[QUBi]

Greetings all. I am very new to VB and programming at large.

I work in an internet cafe and would like to remotely have message popup on computers sent from the assistant on duty's computer.

Also I would like to be able to shutdown these computers from a central computer and maybe start applications to run on the remote PC.

Is there any way of writing an application to do this in VB6.

Please help. Thank you.

[parksie]

First off, you're probably on a TCP/IP network, so that's okay...

Right. You need two programs, a client and a server. The client program, when signalled by the server, will popup a message or run a program. It can also close programs if you need. The server will connect to the specific client, and send the right information. The Winsock control will help here.

The client, when run, hides itself and waits for a connection from the server. The server connects to the client on a command from the assistant on duty.

Hope this helps.

[Jop]

yeah, Parksie is right,
you can find a demo @
http://www.vbsquare.com/demos/comms-demo/index.html

Have fun