Running Exe's on another PC

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Duncan Allen

I have a vb.net service running on a server (under a
domain account) which downloads patches onto NT4 pc's. I
would like the server app to also run those patches on the
pc - is this possible ?

Thanks for your help.
 
no, you need a server or agent on the NT4 box in order to start something
there.
 
Hi Duncan,

You may also try to use the AT command to run a task at certain time.

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Peter Huang
Microsoft Online Partner Support
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Thanks for your help.

I've tried the psexec freeware and that seems to do the
job (except we can't get the microsoft patch files to run
unattended!).

I would really like to know how psexec works - I think it
remotely installs a service which then allows it to
connect to the pc, but I'd really like to know how to do
this, so I could
replicate it in vb.net.

:-)
 
You can do it, but it takes a bunch of pinvoke stuff. The guy who wrote
psexec gave me some ideas, but no details. However, it is all stuff you can
do with win32. I'll try to find the email - If I can. Cheers!
 
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