Path: utzoo!utgpu!news-server.csri.toronto.edu!rpi!zaphod.mps.ohio-state.edu!pacific.mps.ohio-state.edu!linac!att!ucbvax!UMVMA.BITNET!CHARLIE From: CHARLIE@UMVMA.BITNET (Charlie Turner) Newsgroups: comp.protocols.tcp-ip.ibmpc Subject: Re: Executing program through ethernet Message-ID: <9104081524.aa13388@louie.udel.edu> Date: 8 Apr 91 19:14:30 GMT References: Sender: daemon@ucbvax.BERKELEY.EDU Organization: The Internet Lines: 17 On Fri, 5 Apr 91 15:18:12 GMT Chris Behrens said: >The situation : a room full of IBM PS/2's connected via ethernet. Using >TCP/IP for connectivity. > >Can we execute a program residing on PC #1 from PC #2 by using telnet or >other means ?? > Perhaps NFS is what you want. One PC could "mount" another PC's HD and then load and run programs from it, etc. Essentially this is a file server type of function. You didn't mention exactly what PC TCP/IP package you are running. Probably there are others using that package who could help you with NFS if we knew what software you have. Telnet, as someone has already responded, provides an interactive terminal interface into another (host) system. I suppose there could be a PC Telnet implimentation that would give a user on one PC the DOS prompt of another PC, from which one could run a program.