NCSUK

Hope somebody can point me in the right direction.

I have a VB6 application that runs on a web server in our office. This is to be accessed from around the world. We have decided to use MS Remote Desktop as an added level of security.

What I need to be able to do is create an open/save box that looks at the Clients machine, not the server where the application is hosted.

I also need to be able to save small files to the clients machine.

Should I be using the winsock control?????? If so what is the best way to approach it. I don't really wabt to have to do anything to the client pc. I want them to run it as though they are sat in front of it in our office.

thanks for any assistance

headkaze

Your adding Remote Desktop as an *added* level of security??

Anyways, yeah winsock with a server/client setup would work. That will require a program on the client's machine that will send the directory listing to the server for display or the server could just send a command to the client machine requesting it to display a directory. The latter method is more secure since the listing isn't sent down the wires.

I don't recommend using something like FTP as it's too insecure. Unless you use SSH tunnelling with something like Putty.

I don't get what u would use Remote Desktop for? Perhaps you could use thin-client/server technology instead. Like Citrix & Terminal Services.

NCSUK

We normally use Citrix but in this instance we are not going to have access to the clients machines, as they are at several location around the world, with an unknown level of IT experience.

We are running Terminal services onn our server but the cleitns wil use Remote Desktop

What we were hoping to do was run the application from a web page on our website. However, with our limited timescales for delivery we don't have the time to develop something other than a standard executable, connecting to a Sql Server 2000 database.