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Synchronizing display messages across computers

waggythegeek
By waggythegeek
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Looking to find a way to make 4 different computers running windows 7 all display the same .wmv remotely. Imagine an announcement/message system, where the screens display messages in the form of a .wmv video, which changes about once daily. Currently thinking of using teamviewer to remote into all of them and run the file, looking for a more elegant solution, such as telling them all to play a file from a media server, and then just uploading the new .wmv to that server when the messages need to change. Unfortunately i have no idea how to do this. Any suggestions?

Just a guy who peaked at building back in the days of the GTX 980. If you see me here, assume i have technical knowledge akin to a committed hobbyist builder back then. If something's changed, you'll need to tell me(nicely plz). I'm probably asking for help with the modern build scene since I have no clue what's going on.

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You can use psexec.exe (available from Microsoft TechNet for free, just google it)

This allows you to remotely run commands on other machines via command line. It is a bit advanced and I will not provide a full tutorial to do so, but there are tons out there. As far as an easy solution, teamviewer, VNC or even RDP will allow you to remote into machines to do stuff, but the psexec will allow you to just run a script and the program should start on all of them.

 

 

When in doubt, re-format.

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12 minutes ago, pwn_intended said:

You can use psexec.exe (available from Microsoft TechNet for free, just google it)

This allows you to remotely run commands on other machines via command line. It is a bit advanced and I will not provide a full tutorial to do so, but there are tons out there. As far as an easy solution, teamviewer, VNC or even RDP will allow you to remote into machines to do stuff, but the psexec will allow you to just run a script and the program should start on all of them.

 

 

So looking into psexec, it looks great. my only question is what, if any, permissions are needed on the pcs youre remoting into.

Just a guy who peaked at building back in the days of the GTX 980. If you see me here, assume i have technical knowledge akin to a committed hobbyist builder back then. If something's changed, you'll need to tell me(nicely plz). I'm probably asking for help with the modern build scene since I have no clue what's going on.

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3 hours ago, waggythegeek said:

So looking into psexec, it looks great. my only question is what, if any, permissions are needed on the pcs youre remoting into.

IIRC, you need to know username and PW for an admin account on the machines you are trying to execute code on. I have only used it in an active directory environment so I never needed to worry about permissions since my account has domain admin rights.

When in doubt, re-format.

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