Re: [PLUG] I need to control a Windows machine from Linux...

["Isaac Bennetch" <bennetch@gmail.com>]

Good morning,

WSH is probably your friend here. You can write .vbs or even .js files
that (I think) can be used to control IE [1]. I'm pretty sure you can
use telnet [2] to launch the script remotely, even though I've never
done anything like this.

~ipb

[1]: Just a few quick Google hits I found that may be useful:
http://www.scala.com/forum/printing-within-ic-designer-1019.html
http://groups.google.com/group/microsoft.public.scripting.vbscript/browse_thread/thread/7f774e154e05b0c0/cf31ecf120884aa2%23cf31ecf120884aa2

[2]: I know w2k server comes with a telnet server and believe XP and
2k3 do also. I'm not sure about other versions. I think there are also
third party telnet servers, if you so desire. Better still -- install
cygwin and use ssh.

On 6/30/06, George Gallen <ggallen@slackinc.com> wrote:
> Sounds worse than it what I need.
>
> Here's what I need to do.
>
> 1. Create an HTML/javascript page on our Linux machine,
>        then write that page onto on of our windows machine.   (check, done)
>
> 2. Tell the windows machine to launch IE with this internal C:\ URL
>
> 3. Tell IE to print the HTML document (which would create a file)
>
> 4. Read the file created back into linix (check, done)
>
> 5. wrap it and sent it to a choice of printers (check, done).
>
> It's steps 2 & 3 that I'm looking for a program to do.
>
> Basically, I have an HTML page that loads up a bunch of images and text
> associated with the images. It is formatted so when the print is made, each
> printed page contains two of the images vertically. I'm using IE
> specifically
> because I'm utilizing the image manipulation styles (DXImageTransform).
> and it's ability to render an HTML page into a printed page. Then I want to
> send that printed page(s) to specific printer, which could be in the
> building
> or it could remote anywhere on the internet.
>
> What I'm looking for is a way to tell Windows (XP in this case) to launch IE
> and URL
> (the HTML as an OnLoad command to document.print(); so I don't need to click
> print)
> But I will need to tell IE "print" when the "print..." box comes up. The
> default printer
> on this machine will send to a print file and not an actual printer.
>
> Are there any Public domain programs (win) that I can do this with?
>
>
>
>
> George Gallen
> Senior Programmer/Analyst
> Accounting/Data Division
> ggallen@slackinc.com
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>
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