Anyone know what component or where to get a tutorial on how to connect to a LINUX machine using a VB app?

I am trying to create a WIN32 Visual Basic application that communicates to a LINUX machine. I will need to read some file info from the LINUX machine and display it in the application. If change is need I will write the change to the file.

Thanks.

I'm guessing all you really need to do is make a server/client program. The server will be on the linux system, and the client would be on your windows system.

err.. to much of method to do, the simplest way is:-
1. make sure the linux server install samba and the services is turn on (complete this task your linux almost become a windows file server)
2. mount the share folder into windows as a network drive (maybe U
3. Fire up your vb application to edit file in U:\

Of course, there is something to consider, included the workgroup, user, password to consider.

* you can use another way like ssh file system, nfs, ftp but all using the same scenario.

Regards,
Ks

I do not know if I can install SAMBA on the Linux Box. The LINUX OS is running on a 512mb flash drive. How big is this SAMBA?

Also, the LINUX server has an SSH server. I do not know how to work VB with ssh. Is there any library or control component for it?

Also, the customer will be connecting to multiple LINUX box that runs on a 512mb to change the file configuration.

No need to recreate the wheel, putty is a windows SSH client.

I search around, there is a program called "plink", an command version of putty. I plan to get the file from the LINUX box over to a temp folder in WINXP and do an I/O operation. You guys think it is easy this way? Or is there anyway?

samba is small, i think ~10-20mb

Regards,
Ks

All versions of Windows come with command-line ftp. In VB you'd invoke it with the Shell function and input commands with SendKeys.

Any answer you receive is just wild speculation until you know what network service(s) is provided on the Linux hosts. Until you know the answer to that question, it is pretty much impossible to give a good answer. Are you asking how to build functionality into some existing VB application, or are you just assumiong that no suitable application already exists, and you think you want to write one using VB? Do you have license to set up a peer network service on the Linux hosts, or is the Linux configuration a fixed standard?
Get the answers to these questions before you start designing software.
--- rod.