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I want to double click on an icon on one pc and have it run a batch file on a second pc.

Assuming a standard windows XP install, what's the easiest way to do this?

The other thing I was thinking was using rpc to set up a scheduled task to run 1 minute in the future to run the batch file

Essentially I want to stop a service (easy to do over the network), run 3 cmd lines (which can be in a batch file) and then start the service again.

Thanks

Malc

Will this work?

http://stackoverflow.com/questions/1878 ... in-windows

Something like

Net use m: //pcname/c$ username password
M:/batchfile.bat
Disconnect M:

I can't remember the exact commands sorry, but mapping a drive with the net use command might help.

Although obviously only applicable if you want the local machine to run the batch files, rather than the remote pc.

At work, we use some kind of remote perl thing to do stuff like this.

I've never really got that involved with it, mind, so can't be of any further help on that line.

I'm using that to stop and start the service, but it's the executing the cmds remotly that I'm stuck on.

Although I have found out how to do it in powershell.

So as long as the first pc has powershell I can make it call the batch file on the 2nd pc

Thanks for the suggestions guys

Malc

Psexec can do it, I think.

Oh yes.



should help with eliminating unwanted prompts.

...

Didn't Malc start a thread about how you'd hack into a remote computer earlier in the year?

If I didn't know who he worked for I'd be worried.

MI5 just aren't even subtle any more.