Hi, I'm NEW to writing batch files so I'll tell you my goal and what I've come up with so far.

I want the people viewing my web page to be able to click a button and it opens the Nortel Java Device Manager we use here at work with the IP address of the management switch preloaded.

I tried writing a batch file that looked liek this:
CD C:\Program Files\Nortel\JDM
START jdm.jar 1XX.XXX.XXX.XXX

Now that .bat file works for me locally on my PC fine, but when I save it in my root directory of my website (which is on a separate PC/server) and click the button hyperlinked to it, it tells me "http://neteng/DM_LLN.bat" in my webbrowser bar and that "page cannot be found".

Lemme know if this description is too confusing, basically we use a small java application to configure our switches remotely using a GUI and I am making a site with pictures of the switches that you can click on and instantly have the device manager pop up ready to config that switch. THANKS FOR ANY HELP!Are you trying to have the client pc or the server run the batch file?
I don't think a batch file is the best way to ACCOMPLISH your goal, depending on which side the file should run.mmm Everything is runnin on the webserver. I'm a little unclear I suppose. Ideally the USER should not have to download anything, but I don't know if that's even possible.I think you would have to use a server side language like asp or jsp to accomplish that. I don't think php will let you. You definitely can't do it with HTML or javascript, as those are client side scripts and the server would refuse anything like that for security.
I don't know much about asp or jsp, but I'm pretty sure those languages will allow you to run files on the server. Since you are trying to run a java application, it would probably be best to work with jsp.