I'm in the attempt to construct an Active X control that is
supposed to reach out over an Intranet and activate an Access
report through the IP address of the server where Access will
reside.  I have a few ideas but nothing concrete.  Could someone
point me in the right direction as to how to activate a non-internet
application from within a remote Intranet control?

Thanks,
Chris A.

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When once you have tasted flight you will always walk the earth
with your eyes turned skyward; for there you have been and there
you will always be. -- Leonardo da Vinci 1452-1519

Check out the winsock control using UDP.  UDP allows you to send data to a
machine using their IP address and port number.

For example, you can send the command "startreport".  The receiving machine
then gets a DataArrival event.  In the DataArrival event use the GetData
method of the UDP control to get the data that was sent.  The data is
"startreport".  You can then interpret this command and run the program on
the machine using Shell or CreateProcess.

It works great.

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Triad Systems

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