NT to UNIX Application (DCOM?)

[fdsouth]

I have written 2 applications that I need some help with. One was written using ANSI C and compiled on an SGI UNIX Workstation. The other was written in MS VC++ and compiled for use on an NT network. Here's my question:

I need the NT application to make a call through the network and execute the UNIX application. We have NFS mounted the UNIX workstation to the NT network, but I'm not sure how to execute the call. I am new at cross-platform programming so I don't know what is required. I guess I'm supposed to use DCOM but I'm primarily used to writing simple stuff.

Any help would be greatly appreciated - especially code examples

 

[StukA]

DCOM probably won't work (it's a Microsoft technology), but it should be possible to have your Unix app open a socket and listen for a command, then launch whatever you need on that machine - or maybe (to modularize it more) write a little daemon program that listens for the command from the Win program, then launces your Unix app. This would save you from recoding that portion.