RE: Remote Control

["Bob Dubner" <rdubner@bellatlantic.net>]

> Now all I need to be able to do is to transfer a file to the
> remote computer from a DOS command line statement.  I have tried:
>
> copy relay.txt g:\directory\subdirectory\relay.txt
>
> (The disk drive is c: at the remote location but I have assigned it the
> letter g: in the network)
>
> This does not work.  It says "invalid drive specification"
>

Tom, each of the computers on the network has a name.  For example, my
Windows 98 computer is named "rjd"; my daughter's computer is named
"miranda"

Suppose your distant machine is named "miranda". Go to your distant machine
and right-click on g:\directory\subdirectory\.  Select "Sharing".  Make that
folder "Shared As" with the name "subdirectory".  Select the "Full" access
type.

Now, back on your controlling machine, you should be able to execute the dos
command

	copy relay.txt \\miranda\subdirectory\ and have it do what you want.

If it continues not to work, well, maybe you want to make sure that the
NetBEUI networking protocol is installed on the two machines in question.
Microsoft installs NetBEUI by default, but you should make sure it's there
on both of them.

Your solution is brute force, but elegant. I was going to suggest something
like it, but in the wake of all this VNC and PC Anywhere stuff, I figured
I'd just lay low.