I think you would need to point the local client to a shared drive on the server. In other words, you would share a folder on the server, map that share on the remote computer as drive S: (or another letter of your choice), point AsyncShell to drive S:.

Oh, I didn't realize you meant the remote user was across the Internet. I thought you meant a client on the same network.

Normally, you cannot map a drive on another network. But, there is a product call Hamachi that can let you network computers over the Internet. https://secure.logmein.com/US/products/hamachi2/

(I haven't personally used the Hamachi product, but I do use the LogMeIn product extensively, and that works great.)

Perhaps the remote user can send a command to the server to run a batch file to 'ftp' the specified file to a webdav or cloud storage. Then the remote user can download the file.

Surely there is an easier way?

Steve

You may be able to do something using server side mass update programming. It may also be possible to use SSH or similar commands, especially if your remote server is running some version of Unix as opposed to Windows. In general, Sesame prevents commands running on the server from having any kind of write access, because these can present security problems.

I wasn't trying to imply that this was a waste of time or that you shouldn't attempt it - so much as I wanted you to understand the circumstances and difficulties. There are sesame.ini settings to allow you to run the full set of SBasic commands on the engine in a mass update. If you own the server, and you are confident that your users are not a threat to that server's well being, you might be able to use server-side mass update to cause the server to transfer the needed files. Additionally, you may be able to use the client side FTP commands to transfer the file. Again, always easier if you have a Unix based server, rather than Windows.

Hello Steve,

They are documented in the errata which can be found at

http://www.lantica.com/Files/errata.pdf

-Ray

Thanks for the link, Ray. I'll read up.

Erika, we really like Sesame and my goal is to keep all of our users 'in' sesame as much as possible. My immediate need is for a user to be able to open an image in it's entirety, instead of only viewing it in a small image LE on their screen. I'm sure we'll have a similar need for retrieving other files and documents down the road.

I programmed a button to have the image emailed to the user, but the sendmail() command seemed to only work while the user was on our local network (when working from home, a user would need to enter their SMTP server name and password?), plus waiting for an email to arrive was not exactly what I wanted, but could suffice.

I do not feel comfortable enough with my knowledge of security to 'share' a folder on the internet, but I will read up on it. It may be the best solution in the long run.

Thanks for all the advise. You always do a great job of keeping me out of the weeds.

Steve