Re: Any experience with RUNRMTCMD?

[Scott Klement <midrange-l@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

Hi Thomas,

> Nope.  On my system, unless the IFS is mapped as a drive to the PC, I get
> the DOS box with the message 'Access denied'.

I've seen this happen when the userid/password on the PC doesn't match 
the userid/password on the i.

If Windows tries to access \\192.168.0.3\root\pdf\stitch.pdf and the 
user/password doesn't match, it simply fails with access denied. 
However, if Windows tries to access \\192.168.0.3\root (just the 
computer & share name) and the userid/password doesn't match, it'll 
bring up a box prompting the user for the userid/password.

If this sounds like the same scenario, you might try doing a "net use" 
command prior to accessing the PDF.   something like

    net use \\192.168.0.3\root bigboy /USER:klemscot

This associates the userid=klemscot, password=bigboy with the 
\\192.168.0.3\root share on the network.  After that, when you try to 
access \\192.168.0.3\root\pdf\stitch.pdf, it should work.

However...  I have to tell you that I positively HATE the way Windows 
Networking works.  IT's too complicated.  It has too many weird quirks 
(like this one).  If at all possible, I suggest accessing the PDF via 
another prototcol, such as http.  HTTP is a great protocol for this sort 
of thing.

In that case, you could use

STRPCCMD PCCMD('rundll32 url,FileProtocolHandler 
http://192.168.0.3/whatever/stitch.pdf')

That would work a lot better, in my experience.