The story behind this question is that I have an application running on many client computers.
It is required that end users running the application close the application when they are notified about new online updates. All clients are using the same SQL server database.
When the server application needs to be updated, which also has SQL Server installed a update is required for all computers on the network. I have started sending a message to all users like MsgBox("You have to shut down our software on all other computers").
I would like to ask the server operator does he want to close our application on all other computers.
I've succeed doing this using the command prompt and sending messages via users on the network. However, in this case I knew what the Username and Password of the computer.
I want to be able to access remote computers running my application in order to turn of my application (or any other process).
I want to know if it is possible using VB.net or something else where I can log onto the server and obtain all usernames and passwords of the computers connected to my server computer?
If this is not possible then I would like to know of a method using the command prompt to send a message to all computers on the network running my application. This would be used to notify end users that the application needs to be shutdown. Something similar to MSG NET.
I've tried various ways I found on the internet but I had no success in this.
If you need more information or you want me to make my request more clear just let me know.