Don't look at me! I only posted it once. Network connections to Microsoft
are rather spotty today. Maybe MS received it, but wasn't able to complete
the transaction with my news client, so the client sent it again...
Paul T.
"John Atkins" <(E-Mail Removed)> wrote in message
news:(E-Mail Removed)...
> Hey! That's the same idea!
>
> John.
>
> "Paul G. Tobey [eMVP]" <(E-Mail Removed)> wrote in message
> news:(E-Mail Removed)...
> > I have an idea about how you might do this, but you'll have to be sure
> that
> > your Pocket PC is capable of it (it requires some OS components that
might
> > or might not be present)...
> >
> > You may be able to connect to a network share from the Pocket PC. This
> > requires that the 'net' command be used to connect to the shared folder
on
> > the server. Something like "net use locfolder \\servername\sharename"
> > should create a folder in \Network called \locfolder. If your Pocket PC
> can
> > get this far, then you could arrange it so that the
\\servername\sharename
> > folder contains the application that you want to have the user run on
the
> > PPC. You can put a shortcut to the item on the desktop or in the Start
> > menu, if you want. When that shortcut, or the file itself in the
> > \Network\locfolder folder is double-tapped, the system will go out
across
> > the network, download the EXE from the server, and run it on the Pocket
> PC.
> >
> > Paul T.
> >
> > "Fredrik Ljungbeck" <(E-Mail Removed)> wrote in message
> > news:(E-Mail Removed)...
> > > Hi !
> > >
> > > Can you place a PocketPC-application on a server and create a
"shortcut"
> > on
> > > the client so that I know my users always run the latest version of a
> > > program ?
> > >
> > > Regards,
> > > Fredrik
> > >
> > >
> >
> >
>
>
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