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Originally Posted by Astronouth7303
I do not believe you can have the files execute w/o something running on the other end.
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Ah, but this is windows we are talking about!
Of corse you can run programs on a remote machine without installing anything on it! Thats how the blaster worm got so big! You can see if by going on any 2k box and using the command shutdown -i (-i is for interface, you can use --help if you wanna do it from the terminal).
I have a similar situation at my school, and we solved it in a couple of ways.
One of them was dameware (
http://www.dameware.com/). Its not VB, but basically it lets you control lots of computers on your network.
The second way I solved the problem through VB was very simple, but probably not the most efficient. I simply wrote a program that would check a text file on the file-server ever minute or so, and if there was a 1 in it, it would 'lock' the computer it was on, and if it was a 0, it would 'un lock' the computer.
I realize this is an extremely inefficient way of doing things, but it was only took me a couple of hours to do.
I'm not sure if either of these solutions will work for you, but I thought I might as well mention them.
If you do get something working with winstock I would be interested in seeing it (if you dont mind), because I want to start playing around with it too (to write a similar applications).