executing exe program via rsh from remote machine

[korry]

I tried using rsh from remote machine to run .exe but IExplore never launched.

example using rsh:
rsh 10.60.8.65 "cmd.exe /c c:\\pub\\msched_program.exe"

it works fine running program locally:
cmd.exe /c c:\\pub\\msched_program.exe

BTW, rsh cmd works fine because I was able to run other cmds:
rsh 10.60.8.65 "cmd.exe /c dir"
rsh 10.60.8.65 "cmd.exe /c echo 'testing'"

I was hoping to take advantage of exe compiler from this tool but now I am stuck. Is there any way to run exe program remotely?

Please Help!
Thanks,
Korry-

[Bob Hansen]

Check out msNet at http://www.mjtnet.com/msnet.htm.
Designed to run macros remotely, but you could have a one line macro Run Program>.........

Only drawback is that Macro Scheduler would have to be installed on the remote system.
(Is that a bad thing?)

[Guest]

Thanks Bob,

But everything we do here is mostly unix. Our tools and test harnesses were written in perl. I am trying to use these test harnesses remotely from unix server to launch msched_program.exe on windows client via rsh. Even if I buy msNet, it doesn't look like there is a solution for me.

Now I am comtemplating on switching back using MacroExpress or SilkTest.

[Bob Hansen]

have not used rsh, but what if you drop the cmd /c and just do:
rsh 10.60.8.65 "c:\\pub\\msched_program.exe" ?
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In the other samples you are calling command line utilities vs. and exe file. It may be possible that the cmd is not needed for an actual executable.

I found this question, sounds like yours :

I am trying to do an rsh call from MS Windows System 32 Command prompt, to run a script in Unix, with the following command:

rsh node sql_script

where sql_script is an executable shell script that contains an sql command to write to the database. The script runs fine from the unix command prompt but when run through the System32 window the following error message appears...

sql_script: line 9: sql: not found
can rsh no recognise sql? any ideas would be greatly appreciated. I need to do it like this because I have to run the script automatically from within a windows application.

at this site: http://www.computing.net/unix/wwwboard/forum/6107.html.
with some responses.

Try Googling for rsh executable windows

[support]

With msNet you can invoke macros by issuing an http command in a web browser. Therefore you could very easily use linux/perl to invoke the macro. The simplest solution is simply:

wget http://computername:port/macroname >>/dev/nul

Or use lynx or perl or whatever. Details on the format of the http request are in the msNet help.