Accessing remote applications on a network

[MilanD]

Hi all
I use WMI and API(where it is faster) to do a variety of functions on multiple network PCs from a server. There are, however, things I can not do with either of the technologies(locally yes, not remotely) so I'd like to create a small client DLL or EXE that will be installed on every client.

Problem is that I don't know how would I access this DLL remotely. Does anyone know how to run an application using WMI or API remotely, pass and receive values from it?

To explain one more time, I'll have a DLL installed on all network PCs and I want to be able to run this DLL and its methods from 1 PC.

Thanks alot
Milan

[vbud]

I think that what you need is a client/server like application. The app that you will have on the other computers need to be EXEs and not Dlls. They should act like a trojan or server and run at window start up. Then you need to embed the winsock technology in them to be able to send it commands and make it execute those commands on the remote computer where it is being hosted. Thats the best alternative, I think, for your situation. I once did an app like this and it allows me to remotely run applications on the other computers provided of course that the EXE server in running there...

[MilanD]

...well I think that if I make it a COM object it can be a DLL and then it does not have to be running all the time on startup as you said.

Well that brings up another question, how can I send the commands to that "server application" from a remote PC (and receive parameters back)?

I guess that is my only problem as I did something similar, but both client and server applications ran on the same PC in that project.

thank you