Serving Software Files for Direct Access

Program access from remote local

[ahamilton9]

I have a (hopefully) simple question for anyone who knows anything about servers, and not specifically Apache. Me and my friends are trying to see if it is possible to run a certain game from a webpage linked to a server computer at one of our houses. In other words lets say I have a server (little P3 crap computer) and I hook it up to the net, is it possible to serve the game so that nothing has to be downloaded? I know at our highschool, programs are all stored on a central server but that is a local network, I'm wondering if I can do this from a remote computer over the internet. Everything we've tried has only brought up a dialog saying "where would you like to save this?" when we're trying to access it without downloading anything at all. Is this possible? Is there a special proram that would make life easier? Would we only be able to have one person run it at once? Probably not possible but, eh? ANY help would be truly appreciated. (Just so you know, we are NOT trying to break copyrights, we ALL have paid for the program and own our own copies.)

[jdMorgan]

In order to avoid the need to 'download' the game software, the game software must be designed to run on the server -- certainly not a typical off-the-shelf game. In this scenario, the game screen updates are sent over the internet, and the players' 'commands' are received back; The software needs to know that the screen, keyboard, and mouse, etc. are 'remote' devices, and that TCP/IP must be used to reach them. Similarly, a relatively small client program is needed on each player's machine to send commands and receive screen updates from the server.

A possible solution would be to use the "Remote Desktop" feature in Win XP Pro, although I'm not at all sure that it could keep up with the bandwidth demands of a game that has not been optimized for remote playing.

Jim

[ahamilton9]

Thanks for the reply. We did try using Remote Desktop and other things like that such as GoToMyPC, which does work, but Remote Desktop is too slow and GoToMyPC isn't any better. I'm just going to go with, "you need to write a mod for the game and some cgi files to get it to work. " Thanks anyway for the help, and if anyone else has an idea, I'll surly listen.