Sending a WM_ message to another PC

[Mike Winter]

Hi I have a remote PC with a Watchdog application running on it. This is monitoring the health of other applications runing on the PC, and if it detects a problem, will reset the PC. All applications are written in Visual c++, OS is XP home. Is it possible to send a message over the network to the Watchdog app to instruct it to reset the remote PC? Will FindWindow() work over a network (using the IP afddress of the remote machine), or is there another way of getting the handle of the Watchdog application? Thanks for any advice you can give! Mike

[ThatsAlok]

Mike Winter wrote:

I have a remote PC with a Watchdog application running on it. This is monitoring the health of other applications runing on the PC, and if it detects a problem, will reset the PC. All applications are written in Visual c++, OS is XP home. Is it possible to send a message over the network to the Watchdog app to instruct it to reset the remote PC? Will FindWindow() work over a network (using the IP afddress of the remote machine), or is there another way of getting the handle of the Watchdog application?

for IPC over network, there are very few method available one of them is SOCKET, Remote Procdeure Call and NamedPipes( i havn't used Named pipes over network). but Socket is most easy way to communicate over network!

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