dsims@uceng.uc.edu (david l sims) (05/22/91)
I do not have access to a Windows LAN; hence, my question. If one PC on a Windows LAN wants to run a Windows program that is somewhere else on the LAN, what happens? Look at the figure below: +---+ +---+ |PC1|--------+-----------+----------|PC2| +---+ | | +---+ | Windows | | | LAN | | | +--+--+--+--+ other PC's here Now, say PC1 wants to run a program that is located on PC2. Does the program actually execute on PC2, but all the screen output is piped (redirected, etc) over to PC1's screen? If so, then PC2 is acting as the server and PC1 is the client, right? So then does the program even appear on PC2's screen? Will any Windows app work in this fashion or does it have to be specifically programmed to work on a network? What if the program has to do some disk I/O? How does it know which disk to access? In a non-client/server mode, can one Windows app do some inter-process communication (DDE) across the LAN? Any other interesting information would be most appreciated! I just want to know how Windows behaves on a network. Any references to articles, books, text, etc would also be appreciated. Thanks...David Sims, dsims@uceng.uc.edu