WinVNC - "-connect" command over telnet

[Ingecom - SERRE Jean-Christophe]

"Hannes Har" <hanneshar "at" gmx.net> wrote:
> 
[ 8< About unability to run a Win32 app from a telnetd session ]
>
> Or is there any other way to start remotly "winvnc -connect server"
> without being in the same room where this PC is?

I'd see at least two other ways:

~From NT to NT: you can remotely run a command using
  AT \\remoteComputerName hour "command"
so you could have on the remote a dedicated batch doing that, possibly
accepting command-line arguments for the -connect servername. Catches to
that way is that you need NetBios ports opened between the two comps,
and also you need to first do a "NET TIME \\REMOTE" so as to be sure to
schedule the command a few minutes in its *own* future.

~More generally, you can use a dedicated web script if you have a
webserver on the remote, or install one: you then just need it to
support a scripting language able to execute programs or batches, and
set up a little page+form for providing it your arguments.

I'm using this scheme so as to be able to remotely start WinVNC on my
office comp from home. I run the free OmniHTTPd which supports CGI-WIN
scripts: they can be as simple as .BAT files doing a CGI-like interface
through %var:

secretName.bat
......................................................................
@echo off
echo HTTP/1.0 200 OK>> %3
echo Content-type: text/plain>> %3

echo.>> %3
echo Starting...>> %3
START "C:\Program Files\Orl\Vnc\WinVNC.exe" -kill -run
echo Started >> %3
......................................................................

>From home, I just enter in my browser:
  http://1.2.3.4/secretDirectory/secretName.bat

And this batch is executed, doing the trick. Of course, using OmniHTTPd,
there's no user:password security on this file, only the knowledge of
the complete URL is the "secret", but it's enough for my purpose.

A similar thing could do it for you, using a batch or a dedicated CGI
.exe app (even VB would do).

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