Hello!

I wonder if there is a simple way to do this: Let's say I installed a program on a Windows 2003 server and want to execute this program from a Linux server by passing command line arguments to it.

To make it more clear, what if I want to use Windows Media Encoder to convert an MPEG video to windows media and then save the encoded file. In my situation the video will be uploaded by user to a Linux server and then I want to launch a media encoder by passing a path to this uploaded file (the drive on Linux server will be mapped on windows as a network drive, so I can just include a path to a file).

Is there some sort of RPC service that should be used on Windows server for this or is there another more common way to do this?

I do currently have a setup like this and what i did was wrote a service that runs on the windows server and monitors a sql database. When the linux server uploads the file it updates the table and then the windows box processes the file.


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