Display to the Locally Logged On user's screen

[JoshT]

How would I write a program that displays its output to the screen of the user who is logged on locally and physically seated at the computer? I have a utility downloaded from www.sysinternals.com that allows me to execute programs remotely on a NT network, and it works great for command-prompt type programs as it seems to redirect standard input and output to and from my command-prompt. However, I can launch graphical apps, and they run, but they don't display to the user's screen - they just show up under the task lists. I'm assuming they display to a "screen" created for me as a remote log-in - can I force them to the context of the local user?

[alex_read]

Private Declare Function GetUserName Lib "advapi32.dll" Alias "GetUserNameA" _
(ByVal lpBuffer As String, nSize As Long) As Long

Private Sub Form_Load()
    Dim strUserName As String
    strUserName = String(100, Chr$(0))
    GetUserName strUserName, 100
    strUserName = Left$(strUserName, InStr(strUserName, Chr$(0)) - 1)

    MsgBox "Hello " & strUserName & " !"
    End
End Sub

Will find the user name, use the getwindowsdirectory API call to return the windows path & you can search for a folder named this strusername under %windir%\Profiles\ folder

[JoshT]

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I'm not sure how your reply answers my question, alex.

GetUserName would return my username, or whatever I used to log onto the other computer, probably. The code you gave would never show to a screen because I don't seem to have a screen to display graphics to. I want to "hijack" the local user's screen (benevolently). What I think I would need is an API call so that no matter what user started the thread, its graphical output would go to the "interactive session" or something.

[alex_read]

I've looked onto the site to see if I can make more sense of this, could you post a link to the actual program you downloaded from this site please ?

[JoshT]

http://www.sysinternals.com/ntw2k/fr.../pstools.shtml, or more specifically, the psexec program. When I was looking through MSDN, it seems I'd have to look into winstation or the behavior of services to find what I'd want to do.

[alex_read]

Oh God, you want to do a PCAnywhere type app. Gotcha now, you want to run it from their system. Sorry, but this is slightly out of my leaque!

Have you looked at the Winsock add in component with vb ?

[JoshT]

Yeah, I'm thinking it's more trouble than I need. I wanted to do something where I wouldn't need to install anything.

I've used the Winsock control, and even a little with the Winsock API.

[lxs]

hi..if all u want is to capture screen of remote pc?
well i am doing it on alan..
use winsock client-server..
let say monitor wants to capture screen..i did was to..
monitor sends message to client .."screen"
on getting "screen"
the client side program
capture screen ...send it to the monitor..
monitor..gets it and displays!!

he he he..
want to capture o/p..
redirect it to a txt file..open it on monitor..use shell..
bye..
lxs