Please help me with this task. I ha

[fechen]

Please help me with this task. I have no idea on this. Even a little direction will be helpful.

I have two Windows PC A, and B

I need to query a special device driver info on Host B from Host A. We have a command-line application which will call a DLL file on B. The old way is to rcmd from A to B, execute the application on B, get the display and text-parse it on A.

I'd like to find a more elegant method, i.e. write an application, which will remotely call the DLL on host B from Host A. so I have all code in VB, no NT script, nor text file parse, etc.

Security is not an issue here. Both hosts are in lab, login/password are same.

 

[tedsmith]

If it is data you want to transfer from inside one application to inside the other , use the winsock activeX control. You can transfer variables between them.
What is the nature of your "DLL" file that your are running and what does it exactly do?

 

[fechen]

On host B, there is PCI Host Adapter(s). DLL file on B is talking to host adapter API and get host adapter's info. (what I understood).

My goal is to remove the application that used to be executed by rcmd on Host B.

Old way:

Host A Host B

VB
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V
shell ---------rcmd.exe----> current C appl.
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V
DLL and Adapter
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text parsing<---- save display as text-/
in VB


The nicer picture (my guess)

VB --(some technology)-------------------> DLL
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V
info. <----------------------------- Adapter

 

[Pyramus]

The &quot;some technology&quot; is called DCOM. This is what you should be looking at.

 

[fechen]

Thanks, I am digging into it ....

Feng