Start a process on a remote machine

I want to start a process on a remote machine from my local machine. Both are in the same network.

For eg. I want to run some executable(say notepad.exe) on Machine A from Machine B.

I know this can be done using Sockets. But the problem is, Idon’t want any listener process running on the remote machine.

Is there any way I can do it? Any ideas/code samples will be greatly appreciated.

-Jagadish