Hey all,
Quick question: I have a few Designer users in my company that would like to schedule Jet Report jobs on the scheduler of a remote PC running XP. This is because I need for everyone to log out of their PCs at night and shut them down, so I was thinking of a dedicated PC that I manage (as sysadmin of the network) in the server room, but that others could submit their jobs onto and have them run overnight.
Here's the catch: No remote Desktop/Terminal Services/VNC - I don't want the users logging into and running the desktop of the machine. I'd prefer if they could use a Jet Reports GUI (or even a task scheduler GUI) of some description…
Does anyone have a solution to this already in place?
Regards,
Stephen
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Jet Reports Historic Posts All Jet does is set entries in the standard windows task scheduler. You can see a remote machine's scheduled tasks by mapping to the UNC path, i.e.
\\jet-report-server-pc
Then click on 'Scheduled Tasks' and it will show all tasks.
The only downside is they will have to set the command line manually, which isn't something I would entrust to regular non-technical users.
You may be able to write some sort of script that copies tasks from their local PC to your 'Jet Server' on shutdown. I've never done that but I'm sure it could work with some fine tuning. It would require install locations the same, no locally saved files, etc.
If you have a development background you could put your own app together to allow remote scheduling…
As far as I know Jet won't schedule a task on a remote machine.
Good luck - let us know if you come up with something!
cheers, Mark -
Jet Reports Historic Posts I use something similar.
i create the tasks just as i want on my computer, then copy across to the Server.
tasks are in C:\WINDOWS\TASKS
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