Hi,
I need to execute a remote program (on other local network computer) from a Delphi application, without installing nothing on remote machine.
Is it posible from Delphi? Is there any component to do it?
Thanks in advance.
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Sorry, I not explained correctly what I'm trying to do: The execution of the remote program MUST be on the remote computer, not on the computer that's requesting the execution.
I need to do the same that Sysinternals' psexec do (www.sysinternals.com)
Thanks.
check my code, it will help
http://www.ciuly.com/delph
don't forget to read the notes :)
WMI is available with default installation since Win2k, and in the rest (w95, W98) it's installable.
Here is the Windows documentation:
http://msdn.microsoft.com/
radikal:
first, sory for the timeout, I was out of for the past almsot 2 days. I didn't try the code against a computer behind a firewall but I did try to run another program/batch file that would start the targeted program using normal (shellexec/etc) but failed (this was the time when I started reading a little to see why :D). I'll have to read a little and see about that timeout. I noticed such timeouts on local connections when WMI was not present, but if I remember correctly it was around a minute, maybe a little more, but not very anoyingly big.
I'll look into it when I get a chanse, right now I'm caught up in other projects and have another issue that I can't figure out:)
I do have an idea though: - start a remote service that starts the desired application. I haven't tested this yet. I am also thinking on modifying the process space in order to get some more credentials and modify some attributes so that the process can become interactive. The idea is that when a process launches anotehr one, the child process inherits the attributes and credentials of the parent process. But the parent process can change this default behaviour and set the child process's attributes and credentials. So having a process that runs with administrative priviledges one could be able to turn that process into a "remote process lancher" and getting over the limitation of WMI. This comes from a lot of reading so I don't know exactly how to do it, but I do remember reading on stuff that makes me think that such program can be done. It's a matter of documenting which again takes time :) But I' put it on my TODO list for the future.
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by: mikelittlewoodPosted on 2005-09-07 at 01:15:48ID: 14834615
Well you would just run this like any other normal application using ShellExecute.
You just need to make sure you have the full correct path to the network machine and the application name.