[ale] How to get Unix to KickOff an NT Process

Mon Feb 3 15:12:43 EST 2003

One of the IT guys here came with a question.... He has a cron job on a unix box which needs to start a process on an NT box.  Apparently there is either no trust in the NT cron or the NT guys refuse to schedule a job...

Assuming there is no telnet capability on the NT box, the only idea I could come up with is that, IF there were a web server on the NT box..

The unix box via a LWP perl script could invoke a CGI script on the NT Box.  That CGI script would start the necessary NT process.

Anyone got a more elegant solution??

John

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