This may seem like a stupid post. But is there a way that someone could program a little program that can talk to the server or a college network to transfer a file to another computer, by use of their own software. I would like to make my own file transferer but I would like to know what steps are involved like, communicating with the server (if possible) and then having it send a file to any computer connected to the network. I have known someone in the past who coded a little prog. that let him send Windows dialog boxes to any computer in the network. so when someone was working a dialoge box came on the screen with his message. He said something about knowing how to talk to the server. But I know it ain''t that simple, as there must be restrictions and acces rights belonging to network administrators. Well... I don''t know much but networking. Any help is goo dhelp. Thanks in advance. Dark Star

For file transfering read about CInternetSession and CFtpConnection.

For specialty communication to a server read about Winsock and telnet.

Your friend may have been using a feature of Novell, a little program called "send".

It lets you send a message to any user, the message then pops up on the target machine in a dialog box.

The format would be as such:

send "message" targetmachine

If you want to send files to other machines you can try an off the shelf program like ICQ or such.

If you want to write your own program then start with sockets programming. There are tons of resources about socket programming on the net (some here too.) If you are willing to wait until around next June, my book on network game programming will be out..

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