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Access client software from a thinclient

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by mdecap

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Hi, thanks for your interest in the topic I've posted here.

I am curious if anyone is aware of a method, or program of accessing software on a client machine from a thinclient.

For example, running a program that scans wood on a client machine, then accessing that program from a netier thinclient.

Sorry if this question is vague, or in any way not understandable. I will clarify if requested.

Thanks again.

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by epepke

I find it a little vague, but if I understand correctly, then IP sockets are your best friend.

by mdecap

Well, thank you for your advise of looking into IP Sockets, but before I look too deeply into it, I will clarify what I was asking.

I am trying to find a way of communicating between 2 client computers. One client acting somewhat like a server in that software is running on it, and the other computer will be accessing the data that program produces.

i.e A board scanning program, on one client, that checks for accurate measurements of wood. The other client (being a thinclient) is in anoperator booth, and it needs to be able to access that program to know if there are any alarms that should result in the stopping of machinery, etc.

I wish to accomplish this without the use of terminal server, just so that I can remove some potentially week points...

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I was just given this problem yesterday, and I'm expected to learn/understand it all... Which I'm working on...

by dukebytes

This really sounds like it is something that should be built into the software that is actually doing the scanning.

But I would suggest that you download VNC and load it on both machines and just use the one to connect to the other. Or have someone write some code that will "hook" into the program that is doing the scanning and have that code running on the operators PC.

Hope that this helps.

Good luck,
Duke

by epepke

They're very easy to use, and once they're set up, it's just like reading and writing to a file.

So the board-scanning program writes "Oh no! I've just cut my thumb off!" to a socket on one side, and the other side sees that there are charactersavailable on the socket and reads the string.

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