Tom's Hardware > Forum > General Networking > Network General Discussions > Running Programs On a Network

Running Programs On a Network

Forum General Networking : Network General Discussions - Running Programs On a Network

Tom's Hardware: Over 1.4 million members in 6 different countries available to answer all your high-tech questions. Sign up now! Its free!
Word :    Username :           
 

Hello

Sorry if this is the wrong place to ask this but you guys seem to be spot-on on this network stuff.

Anyway once you have two computers networked together how do set up one computer to run a program from the second computer.

For instance I went in and shared my Print Shop folder on the second computer and the Print Shop program exe file was in that folder. I went back to the first computer and looked in My network places and the Print Shop folder showed up there. I expanded and double clicked on the program exe startup file but got an error message saying it couldn't find a certain file. The whole C drive is shared on the second computer also.

Theres a co-op business that wants to do this also, they have one main computer their using now and want to add a second computer and network the two and run their business software off of the original computer.

Sorry but am new to this stuff, maybe you guys could point me too a "tutorial" for doing something like this.

Thanks for your help!!

Sponsored Links
Register or log in to remove.

When you install software it does allsorts of things like:-

- Put DLLs into C:WindowsSystem32
- Entries into the registry
- Application files into C:Program Files<application name>
- Register DLLs, OCX ....

You cannot simply click the EXE file over a network as the above bits will be missing.

An application would have to support networked installations (most don't)
I'm afraid you will have to install the application on both computers.

:cry:

Reply to hubbardt
Tom's Hardware > Forum > General Networking > Network General Discussions > Running Programs On a Network
Go to:

There are 556 identified and unidentified users. To see the list of identified users, Click here.

Please mind

You are about to answer a thread that has been inactive for more than 6 months.
If you still wish to proceed, please ensure that your posting is original and does not duplicate or overlap any prior responses to this thread.

Add a reply Cancel
Sponsored links
  • Ask the community now
  • Publish
Ad
They won a badge
Join us in greeting them
  • 01:00 gpfear won the Freshman badge
  • 01:00 Conrad925 won the Freshman badge
  • 01:00 skythra won the Freshman badge
  • 01:00 Ckaz won the Freshman badge
  • 01:00 james59 won the Uniformed badge
  • 01:00 snarl won the Uniformed badge
  • 01:00 patlabor44 won the Uniformed badge
  • 01:00 Kiren won the Uniformed badge
  • 01:00 WookinPaNub won the Uniformed badge
  • 01:00 kwadams won the Uniformed badge