Remote to a computer thru Visio web diagram.

[aerosmith_freak_03]

WI have been using Visio for about 2 days now so please try to stick with me.
I have several network diagrams in Visio 2003 Pro that I would like to create
links when click on a computer you can connect to it. I would really rather
use DameWare Mini Remote Control but I could work with Remote Desktop. I
would also like to have the option to just map a drive/open my computer to
view (\\computername\c$). How would I go about doing this? I have seen a few
solutions to the Remote Desktop but I can't seem to figure out how to make
them work, I am not very familiar with programming or Visio. Any help on this
would be great, thanks.

 

[Al Edlund]

There are a couple of scenarios, all of which of course require a certain
amount of asp coding.
a.) you can create a hyperlink to call telnet
b.) you can take an event, open a windows shell, and pass it a command
string to open terminal services client
c.) you can call a wmi script to execute against the remote device
I don't do it via web but each of these takes advantage of shape data
(previously called custom properties) where I store the IP address in the
shape.
al

 

[aerosmith_freak_03]

I read a post that you replied to (Subject: create custom property to run
remote control) I take it that this is not for creating web pages? What do I
need to do to create an event to pass window shell a command? I am guessing
that any chance of making DameWare work with this is out of the question,
right? Do I have any options as far as opening a folder with a click that
goes to \\computername\c$ I thought of one more thing that I would like to
do: All of the machines in Visio are listed with their Active Directory name,
can I tie that into Visio to get the other information without adding
attributes manually? Thanks