Send/Listen Commands on LAN

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B-Dog

Can someone point me in the right direction or tell me if it is possible to
do this? I'm new to VB but have a buddy that is really good but we can't
really find anything on doing this. We have built a small application that
we are running on the workstations at the office and we need to do global
updates to the local databases. We are using 98/2000 machines. We would
like to have app listening to certain port or something and be able to send
out a global update command to tell the app to perform a certain operations.
Is this possible. Please help. Thanks
 
You can use remoting to talk FROM the 98 machine, no problem. I am not
sure that you can host a remoting session on one though - do not have
one to test on. I know that it would have to be a running program, not
a Windows Service however, as 98 does not support services. It could be
a background application (i.e. a console app) however that was started
from the Autoexec.BAT (whew, I have not thought about THAT in a while!)

HTH

David
 
Hey thanks for the help, I think we found exactly what we needed. Got us
pointed in the right direction. Thanks
 
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