Notification program

[quadrplax]

Does anyone know of/can easily make a program that does the following?:

• The program will run off of 2 computers in a LAN network
• Host: When a certain key (ex: F8) is pressed, a program in the tray will send a signal to the client.
• Client: A program which is hidden to the tray will play a custom sound when a signal is received from the host.

Thanks

 

[quadrplax]

Is it too early for a bump? I'm not much of a fourms guy but I see a thread posted 12 mins ago has already gotten 12 replies, so I'm guessing so

 

[Alejandro85]

An option may be to use some remote administration tool to start a program remotely that plays the sound or do whatever you want. I can think of both Telnet and SSH connections from one computer to another, so you can use the command line to start a media player to play some sound.

I've done a quick test using SSH to my very same computer. There with the command:

start "c:\something\sound.wav"

(supposing you have such a file in that folder of course)
And the sound effectively played. I suppose that it should work over a network too, but I have a few doubts about security of the services that might pose a problem.

Anyway, if you want to try, Windows includes a rudimentary Telnet server and client (not installed by default, but can be enabled though control panel). That should be enough for doing that over a LAN, but if you want to extend it to access over internet SSH is a far better option, because of encryption.