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vbshuru, how about a few details? Are we talking windows 95? Or windows XP? In a domain or workgroup?
Do you have a C++ or C# compiler on the windows system? A visual basic compiler? Are you a programmer? What languages? Can you use ActiveX, ADO, MSXML, etc?
How many ways can you think of to connect the boxes? Can the unix ftp to the pc? And can the pc ftp to the unix? Same questions for telnet, ssh, http, and any other services that you know.
And anything else that can be useful. I can't think of every possible question.
I am only familiar with windows XP. I could install IIS (it comes standard with XP pro). And then I could bring up a small web server on my XP laptop. XP comes with VBScript and I could have a web page that uses VBScript. Now I only have used vbs under Windows Script Host, never under the web host, so I don't know what objects are available. But I'm sure that there's some way to run a program. Then the results can be returned as the web page. If the program will take hours, then the web server can provide a status. There are other languages available, but vbs is the only one I know so far.
I'm very sure that I could make this approach work, but it would involve a lot of learning curve.
Another idea: write a vbs script that ftp's to the unix system and tries to get a trigger file. If that works, run the program. When the program finishes ftp a "done" file back to the unix system. Use the task scheduler run the script periodicly.
