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Answer» Hi all, Title says it all really. Well, does anyone know the syntax in DOS (for XP) for opening a file on a remote computer (in the same network and domain as yours) ? The file should then be opened on the remote computer itself and not on the one where the batch file lies. Many thanks in advance.if you have administrator right on the network, use psexec.exe from sysinternalsuite. download available at microsoftThanks Reno but I have a hard time believing that a simple DOS solution doesn't exist.Quote from: Cheese on May 13, 2009, 10:09:23 PM Thanks Reno but I have a hard time believing that a simple DOS solution doesn't exist. Please tell us why you think that. Many here believe that Windows was not built on top of DOS. Some of us here are wondering why so many ask us about DOS based commands when there are so many ways to do anything inside of the Windows interface. Are there some INSTRUCTORS or books that teach people everything starts in DOS? In windows you just go into My Network Places and find whatever can be seen. And if you need to execute a program on the far machine, there is a way to do that, as was EXPLAINED above in another post.Quote from: Cheese on May 13, 2009, 10:09:23 PM Thanks Reno but I have a hard time believing that a simple DOS solution doesn't exist. tools are available in exe format that can do the job. to read a file in remote server including DIFFERENT platforms, there are various ways to do it. eg SSH, telnet, expect etc, depending on WHETHER these services are available. psexec is only one solution of them that is used between windows machines and can't be used if you want to connect UNIx machinesI like DOS solutions because I like to have a clean PC. And it seems to work because in 15 years of PC use I don't remember having ever had the slightest virus on my machine, not EVEN the Sasser & consorts. DOS commands are a very elegant solution because the program exists on every XP PC the same way. Still, I admit that this time I'll probably have a hard time because part of the PC's run on Win98, which doesn't use the same command. I'll have a look at psexec. Thanks for that folks.Quote from: Cheese on May 14, 2009, 01:16:18 PM DOS commands are a very elegant solution because the program exists on every XP PC the same way. that's not even the basis for "elegant solution". Its just convenience.We don't use the same vocabulary then. To me an 'elegant solution' is a solution which brings you the best possible output with a minimum of means. And the DOS console isn't exactly a heavy program is it.

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Hi all,

Title says it all really. Well, does anyone know the syntax in DOS (for XP) for opening a file on a remote computer (in the same network and domain as yours) ? The file should then be opened on the remote computer itself and not on the one where the batch file lies.

Many thanks in advance.if you have administrator right on the network, use psexec.exe from sysinternalsuite.
download available at microsoftThanks Reno but I have a hard time believing that a simple DOS solution doesn't exist.Quote from: Cheese on May 13, 2009, 10:09:23 PM

Thanks Reno but I have a hard time believing that a simple DOS solution doesn't exist.

Please tell us why you think that.
Many here believe that Windows was not built on top of DOS. Some of us here are wondering why so many ask us about DOS based commands when there are so many ways to do anything inside of the Windows interface. Are there some INSTRUCTORS or books that teach people everything starts in DOS?

In windows you just go into My Network Places and find whatever can be seen.
And if you need to execute a program on the far machine, there is a way to do that, as was EXPLAINED above in another post.Quote from: Cheese on May 13, 2009, 10:09:23 PM

Thanks Reno but I have a hard time believing that a simple DOS solution doesn't exist.

tools are available in exe format that can do the job. to read a file in remote server including DIFFERENT platforms, there are various ways to do it. eg SSH, telnet, expect etc, depending on WHETHER these services are available. psexec is only one solution of them that is used between windows machines and can't be used if you want to connect UNIx machinesI like DOS solutions because I like to have a clean PC. And it seems to work because in 15 years of PC use I don't remember having ever had the slightest virus on my machine, not EVEN the Sasser & consorts.

DOS commands are a very elegant solution because the program exists on every XP PC the same way. Still, I admit that this time I'll probably have a hard time because part of the PC's run on Win98, which doesn't use the same command.

I'll have a look at psexec. Thanks for that folks.Quote from: Cheese on May 14, 2009, 01:16:18 PM

DOS commands are a very elegant solution because the program exists on every XP PC the same way.

that's not even the basis for "elegant solution". Its just convenience.We don't use the same vocabulary then. To me an 'elegant solution' is a solution which brings you the best possible output with a minimum of means. And the DOS console isn't exactly a heavy program is it.

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