IP saved to txt file

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Originally posted here by phishphreek80
Its much easier to just use a remote desktop tool...
Look into VNC.
You'll save yourself a lot of time and trouble.

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Or even better yet, go on Ebay and purchase yourself a crappy monitor. They have ones you can pick up there for under $50, so all but the most ghetto of techies can afford one. If you are one of those sad cases of an extremely ghetto techie, then start looking up yard sales in the Sunday paper. I'm sure if you shopped around you could find an old one that someone's getting rid of for next to nothing.

...or if you cant afford garage sales take a walk/ride threw a nicer neighbor hood on large item garbage day. usually the same day every month in towns that can afford it. these guys throw out good moniters when they decide its time for a new one. you can find good p-II/III machines just tossed!?!

If the remote machine is a windows box look into pstools from sysinternals.
It contains a vary handy tool called psexec. pstools need NT4 or better though.

This will start a remote cmd prompt
psexec \\remotecomputer cmd

As for outputting a textfile to another pc take alook at netcat.
nc remote.computer 23 < textfile.txt should do the trick.

A better way would be to use SSH.
This way you'll have strong authentication and encryption.
scp mytextfile.txt [email protected]uter:some/directory

http://home.att.net/~short.stop/freesoft/batch02.htm

http://www.computerhope.com/dutil.htm

Hell, you can have one of the 20 or so I have collecting dust in my basement.

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Originally posted here by SirDice

As for outputting a textfile to another pc take alook at netcat.
nc remote.computer 23 < textfile.txt should do the trick.

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I tried that, and it doesn't work. :confused:

Soooo...you DO have Netcat installed on your PC? It's not one of those built in commands, you know...

You know what you could do... Seeing as how you have physical access and all, you could write a program that updates the file you want after so much time, then run some server software on the remote machine. I would suggest a webserver, that way you could design the program to format your log output in to some nice HTML. I've done this for a "Today in History" program, which goes through a large database of comma delimited textfiles, extracts the appropriate data, catagorizes, and formats the data into HTML. The page is output to a directory of my server, and hosted to the local network.

This solves the problem of having to swap monitors, run the program manually, and get the information remotely.

Hope this helps!

(P.S. - I might be willing to help out depending on the motive of the project.)

Yep, I have netcat in c:\windows\system32 in bolth computers. I've used it before, so I know it works.

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Seeing as how you have physical access and all, you could write a program that updates the file you want after so much time, then run some server software on the remote machine. I would suggest a webserver, that way you could design the program to format your log output in to some nice HTML. I've done this for a "Today in History" program, which goes through a large database of comma delimited textfiles, extracts the appropriate data, catagorizes, and formats the data into HTML. The page output to a directory of my server, and hosted to the local network.

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I don't have any idea how to go about any of that, and I think I'd be pretty much lost. :rolleyes:

It's not that bad. Just install the server software (Sambar is easier), then run a program that does the following:

In QB:

SHELL "[command] > \sambar\docs\outputfile.html";

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Have it do at a certain time of the day, or after a certain increment of time, and it will be pretty much self-sufficient, as long as the program is running.

You could then place shortcuts to the server and the program in your startup directory, so that it starts up every time you have to reboot the computer.