The only real way to do that is to have an application that is already running on the remote system (like a windows service, or if it is not a server os, then a desktop app in the startup folder (of course, then the system would have to be logged into)) There are several ways to tell an app to do something: 1) Place a file in a directory where the app is monitoring 2) Place a value into a database that the app monitors 3) Send a message via winsock to the applicaton Using the service method, you can invoke that service to make it do what you want as well as using any of the methods above. Using the application method, you would need to use one of the methods above. The first method requires that you have access to and permissions to write into the target directory on the target machine. The second method requires that you have access to the database that the other application also has access to. (not if this is not a SQL Database, then you will need to have permissions to that db file) (if it IS SQL, you will need permissions to the DB) (You could also create an ASP app on the remote machine to access the db if you do not have direct access to the file system and you would just call up the asp page.) The winsock method would mean that you would need access to the system (or you could have that remote system connect to a centralized server app if it is behind a firewall or router that prevents incomming connections) Phew...Well I hope this gets you thinking... Chi "They mostly come at night...mostly"

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