Re: [MacPerl] AppleEvents via Net? (spooky actions at a distance)

["Richard Johnson" <rjj@medialab.com>]

At 06:55 -0600 on 6/4/97, Matthias Ulrich Neeracher wrote:
> "Richard Johnson" <rjj@medialab.com> writes:
> >I'm trying to use Mac Perl to fire up a set of distributed apps on idle
> >workstations overnight.
> ...
> > ...
> >Even better, is there a way to specify the authentication info (user name
> >and password) for the program link on the remote machine, without popping
> >up a dialog on an unattended machine?
>
> How about installing Peter Lewis' Script Daemon on the remote machine? This
> allows you to connect to the Telnet port (23) of the Machine, send the login
> & password and then execute the AppleScript locally.


Excellent suggestion.  I'd have to know the owner name and password on each
Mac, however, as Script Daemon 1.0.1 doesn't (yet?) allow logins as anyone
else.


At 03:54 -0600 on 6/5/97, ziege@ito.umnw.ethz.ch wrote:
> Try the System Extension "AutoGuest INIT 2.0". The user documentation says:
> ...
> "Solution:	If guest access is available on the target machine, always log
> "on as a guest without bringing up the authentication dialog box.
> ...


Another excellent suggestion.  I found the AutoGuest INIT and code resource
(version 2.0a1) on http://hyperarchive.lcs.mit.edu/HyperArchive.html


I think I'll try both ways, given that some of the daytime users of the
Macs will certainly object to our standardizing their owner names and
passwords :-).  Hopefully AutoGuest still works under 7.6.1.  (Maybe it
even works under 8.0b6?)

Failing any of this working, I might just bite the bullet and write my own
background app to listen on a particular UDP port, and launch the renderer
for me.  That way I'll be able to launch it from a Perl script on any
machine I happen to have running, rather than having to do it from one that
groks AppleScript.


Richard



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