how can i remotely capture screen

[jaydeep naik]

hi everyone i am developing a project in college and i am wondering to capture a screenshot that continuously update so please help me guys

thanks in advance

[medsont]

try this link
http://www.vbforums.com/showthread.php?t=385497

[OhGreen]

How are you planning on deploying the .exe?

You can't screen capture if you don't have the remote computer already set up.

[jaydeep naik]

hi thanks for reply ,
i have two pcs connected in lan one having win server 2003 and another having win7 ultimate and i am able to capture screen by a running application on client pc and i am now wanting to send that captured image to the server application's picturebox .

thanks again for replying...

[OhGreen]

Okay that is a slightly different situation, effectively the picture is already taken with a piece of 3rd party software and you need to access the remote picture file and displaying it within a picturebox?

What sort of share have you got set up on the LAN?

[jaydeep naik]

hey OG sorry
but i didn,t understood what you are trying to say by "sort of share"

[OhGreen]

Well from what you've said you personally have a LAN with a Server 2003 and a Win 7 Ultimate. You also have a client PC which I'm guessing is a remote computer outside of your LAN?

[striv90]

His talking about the network shares on the remote machine.

You could possible access the "captured images" via the windows default administrative shares.
The default administrative shares for a windows machine, without any external HDD's attached, are as followed:

"admin&" Displays the windows directory on a local/remote machine
"c&" Displays the full contents of the c partition, normally known as the installation partition. (Unless otherwise changed to something else.)
"ipc&" Used to facilitate communication between processes and computers over SMB

To list all the administrative shares on a machine use the following command within a command prompt.
"Net Share"

This will list all shares.

(Note. To access the administrative shares on a remote system you need to have administrative rights to that machine)

[jaydeep naik]

THANKS FOR YOUR REPLY
but how can i use these commands for my purpose in vb.net code
please if you can give me some code that how do i do that ?

thanks in advance..

[OhGreen]

Before I can help I need to know where you're planning on grabbing the images from?

How you're taking the screenshots?

Are you doing it on demand or on a timed loop?

Can you install the .exe on the remote machine?

[striv90]

Try this source code i have quickly put together. Run it on the machine you want to capture images from.
http://www.megaupload.com/?d=MEPA9XZC

To access the images from another machine on the network, simply press "Windows Key + R"
and in the "Run" window type "\\MachineNameHere\CapturedImages".
You may or may not need login credentials

Program in Action;
Right Click program on the taskbar:


Set Timer:


Directory(Stored In Date Format):


Images(Stored In 24-hour Time):

[jaydeep naik]

hi OG thnx for your valuable reply

i just explain

i am developing a network management project in which i am adding a feature
by which i can capture the desktop screens of remote computers in LAN

and i just dont know how to do ........