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by smor27

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I remember back in school we were able to use a set command to start certain programs. Does any one know if, or how we can use this type of command to start a program such as Symantecs PC Anywhere. Is it possible?

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by jschein

kind of a vague question, please be more specific...

For example, are you talking about a batch file? Windows Scheduler? NET START cmd?

by smor27

Sorry, I was wondering about the net start cmd. I was wondering about if a customer's PCanywhere session was closed if there was a way that I could open it without having to talk them through setting it up again. We deal with alot of managers that have no idea on how to do this and sometimes it is atleast 20-30 minutes talking them through setting it up. Very agrievating to the point you had a different career. Any help is appreciated. Thanks

by cyrusmak

first, you can look at the file name of the programs in the folder "c:\windows"
after finding out the names, you can just enter the names in "start>run" in the future.

by techtonik

It all depends on what machine you are trying to start the session on and what OS that machine is running. If you are trying to make sure that the service is running and it is running 2000 or XP, you should be able to use the following:

net start "servicename"

If security is not too much of an issue, you can use the telnet daemon on the client machine to telnet to the machine yourself and start the service. If telnet is not available, write a batch script with the above command in it and email it to the user and have them save to desktop. Then just have them run that to ensure that the service is started. You should also be able to save the settings for a particular host from within PCAnywhere. If this is possible, just email this config file to them and treat it as the batch script...

Hope this helps...

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