Remote Call over LAN

[sroberts2k1]

Hi,
Im sure this has been asked several times before but here goes!!!

I need a program running on 1 machine, that will grind away happily in the background.

Another app will run on a second machine so that when the user presses a cmd button, a signal is sent over the network, recieved by the app running on computer 1, and then computer 1 is automatically shut down.

Any help much appreciated

[Dalceon]

which operation system are you using??

[JordanChris]

Three problems:
1 - How to get a message from one machine to another.
2 - How to get a machine to shutdown.
3 - How to get the program to run in the background.

1: Use Winsock - plenty of examples in this forum.
2: Use the API - See www.allapi.net
3: If NT / 2000. Create the program as a service.

OR, find a tool that already does this. They are available in many of the NT / Windows 2000 Resource Kits. Called something like RShutdown.

[Dalceon]

under 2000 Xp and I'm not sure bout NT, you can just
use the shell command to execute shutdown.

go to a command prompt and type shutdown /?

that's probably your easiest way if you have permission on the other machines.