dod9

that URL to the updater utility doesn't work for me, it returns no response body or content (length: 0), just headers.

I searched google but there is so many terms for doing this, and so many ways that I ended up here in search of experienced users: Windows XP: PC has three NIC's; WAN1 WAN2 and LAN, and two software applications (APP1 & APP2) which don't allow you to choose which network interface to use. I want APP1 to use WAN1/LAN for network access and APP2 to use WAN2 but I don't want the two interfering with each other, effectively separating the two systems (ie. the apps and their interfaces), but on one OS, does anyone know how to do this? I have seen the order of preferred network devices for network services in the advanced settings dialog of 'Network Connections' shell folder but this doesn't help in this situation. Some things that spring to mind are: Proxies Virtual machines Network level/stack drivers Routing tables Windows Networking API hooks, however that works (used to be winsock). Any ideas would be great, If there's a real need for this kind of per process interface routing, I would be happy to help with an open source soloution. Regards. DoD9

I have a room with 100 networked windows (XP & 2k) computers, I want to be able to configure and ovverride settings (such as desktop wallpaper, homepage, showing network connection icon, rebooting, shutting down, power saving etc) on all of them at once, do you know of any software or infrastructure that would enable me to do this? I have searched and searched but either nothing exists to do this or my wording is incoherent with the trend. I appreciate any help, I think this would be very useful software to write, the client (or puppet master) would send commands to the puppets which have the server listening and the server would translate and apply the commands in the native operating systems procedures. I would happily set up a domain if neccessary as my company has an MSDN subscription.