Re: Calling PC's from the AS/400

[Vern Hamberg <hambergv@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

Brad

At 12:50 PM 1/13/98 +0000, you wrote:
>Things have been quiet.  Here's a new question.
>
>We had a question in our office that I thought someone might have
>some insight on.  If anyone has any thoughts or can point me
>somewhere, that would be great.
>
>The Technical Challenge:
>
>We are looking for a way to call the client from the AS/400.   
>For example, when a user is accessing an application using any 
>emulation package, we want to run something on their PC.  How do 
>we call into their PC?  I know how to do this with an APPC connection 
>but need to do this with TCP/IP connections.
>
>I see lots of ways to call the AS/400 from a client but not vice
>versa. We'd rather NOT require that they start up a client 
>application that just sits on a data queue although I think that 
>would work. Are there other options?
>
>An example use of this could be to allow a button in an AS/400 based  
>customer master application to e-mail to the customer.  When they 
>press the button, you want to activate their PC based e-mail package. 
>How does this get launched on the PC?  

We're doing something similar. The answers, if you are connecting to Win
95/NT, are in the _Client Access for Windows 95/NT - Setup_ manual
(SC41-3512-02 is the one I have). You need to have password caching active.

I just found out that if, when you take the 'Remote Command' tab of Client
Access properties, you get a Control Panel message saying 'Cannot access
password cache', you should delete any *.pwl files in c:\windows (Win 95,
at least). These are the password files for each user set up on your
machine. Mine were messed up, deleting them took care of things.

Cheers

Vernon Hamberg
Systems Software Programmer
Old Republic National Title Insurance Company
400 Second Avenue South
Minneapolis, MN 55401
(612) 371-1111 x480


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