Lauching Applications across a network on a shared drive

[Chris]

Hello,
We run AB Control here, and I was recently trying to get it to run an application across a network. So going through launch and typing explorer.exe or something like that was fine. But for example; i wanted to run winzip.exe (installer) remotely from a shared drive; so i tried multiple time using commands similar to:

Z:\winzip\winzipinstall.exe
explorer.exe +"Z:\winzip\winzipinstall.exe"

So any ideas how I can run a file across AB control from a shared drive?
Cheers in advance.

[Zodian]

On the computer you are remoting to are you logged in as a user that has the Shared drive mapped as Z: ? IF not maybe that is the problem. the Shared drive isnt the one mapped on your computer but the one mapped on the Remote Computer.

Heres one that i did and it worked fine.
Under Application explorer.exe
and in Parameters entered R:\Drivers\Utilities\ABTutor\Ver3.10\abcontrol3.exe

Opened it up like a Treat. Hope this helps.

[Chris]

Sorry, i forgot to mention that; both systems are logged on as administrators and both have the same mapped network drives, so the Z: path and command line should work.

So basically if i go start>run>Z:\etc.etc. on the local machine the command works. But putting that in as the command to send across Launch Application. It does just nothing. I can send explorer.exe and it boots no problem. But without extending the command line (like i tried in my first post) i am forced to manually share the keyboard and typing it in myself, i can't get it to actually run.

To give more background; I'm looking at trying to run 120 installs of a software shared on a mapped network drive (Z) and getting it to boot up remotely.

Cheers for the reply

[Zodian]

Heres what i did as a screenshot. What i ment to say is put the Program path u want to install in the arguments and put explorer.exe in the Application.
[img]http://members.iinet.net.au/~trigz2/hosted/remoteinstall.jpg[/img]

Is this the part not working for you?

[Chris]

Got it working from that screenshot, i was trying to run it through Launch Application not Launch Manager,
thank you very much for your help, much appreciated.

[Andy]

The technique of using ?explorer.exe? as a way to run applications on a network drive is a nice one.

However, I can conform that you should be able to run apps from a network drive directly and at the moment this doesn?t work due to a security issue.
By default, the AB client program runs under the Local System account and does not have access to the network. We will see if we can fix this in the next version.