[ale] [not OT] run windows commands remotely?

[John Wells]

You should be able to whip up a quick perl script
(using sockets) to take care of this.



--- Chris Bergeron <cbergeron at bassemail.com> wrote:
> From a linux box?
> 
> Does anyone know of any windows
> apps/services/daemons that listen for a
> command and will run it on the local machine?  
> 
> Perhaps I should clarify:
> 
> I have Xwin32 running fullscreen on a Windows box
> (running X-windows)
> I grab a CNN headline and display it with xmessage
> on Xwindows  
> I can assign button press events to xmessage.
> I want to load my IE browser with http://www.cnn.com
> when a good
> headline appears.
> 
> Sooo, I guess I need a daemon that listens in
> windows and will execute a
> command when it receives (and authenticates
> hopefully) something.  I
> would think that something like this exists, but I'm
> drawing a blank.
> Perhaps, I have to combine netcat with something?
> 
> Any leads or ideas?
> 
> Thanks in advance,
> CB
> 
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