Is it possible to run app that is in a PC??

[Ibai Peña]

Hi,

I would like to run a Win32 app that is in a PC inside our network from the
Pocket PC. The app should run on a specific directory in the PC.

Is it possible? Perhaps using CreateProccess?? How would I refer to the app,
and to the directory?

Thanks in advance,

 

[Paul G. Tobey [eMVP]]

You can't create a remote process unless the PC is configured to allow it in
some way. You certainly can't just call CreateProcess() on the PPC and
launch the PC program. Given the security concerns, I'm guessing that
almost no PCs would be set up to allow that, right now. You can do it
through RPC, probably, which is built on top of DCOM, or you could write a
program to run on the PC and accept socket connections from your PPC with
commands sent to do various things.

Paul T.