We have a program called Articulate Presenter that is an add-on the
Microsoft PowerPoint.  It adds "bells and whistles" to PowerPoint, and
most importantly, can convert a PowerPoint file into a Flash file. 
This reduces the size of the file and makes it much more compatible
for internet use.

We have one copy of the program on one computer on our network.  The
authoring company (Articulate) is very picky and successful in
limiting licenses and on how many computers you can load a program. 
Fair enough!  However, we would like to know if we can have one of our
workers access the program which is on my computer from her computer
which is just across the room, but on the same network.  We thought
that we had seen this done previously with ACCESS, but we're not
certain.  So, in essence, our question is can a program on 'Computer
A' be run by a user on 'Computer B'?  If so, how?  By the way, we are
both using Windows XP Professional operating systems.  Thanks so much.
 -- Arthur

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Clarification of Question by civitas-ga on 31 Mar 2006 12:19 PST

Just to clarify, we are not looking for a program which allows one
computer to take control of another (we already have that).  We are
looking for a way for a program that is only on Computer 'A' to be run
across a network by someone on Computer 'B'.  While this is being
done, the operator at Computer 'A' would still be able to run other
programns on his/her computer.

This may help:

"One way to run a program on A from B is to use what's called remote
desktop. From computer B, you run a program called a remote client
that displays a window of computer A's desktop. On computer A, you
will need to run a program called the remote desktop server. Windows
XP Pro provides the remote desktop server..."
http://www.experts-exchange.com/Networking/Q_21300331.html

Best regards,
Rainbow

Log Me In is a particularly good and secure remote desktop program, and it's free.

www.logmein.com  (click on Get LogMeIn Free)

No you can't is the answer, computer b would require installation
files locally and registry settings.

Just somthing you could try is install the software on computer b and
register it then delete the programs .exe then put a shortcut to the
.exe on computer on computer b's desktop. Its a long shot but it may
work all depends on the source code of the software.

Remote access would be the way although you stat you don't want to do this.

If the hack work technically the software would be installed and
registerd on two machines but using the one exe, don't know about
licencing issues with that

This can definatly be done, but it requires much more advanced networking harware.

Using a CD server or 'program server' (you can see where this is
going...) you can have a computer on the network which has the program
saved on it.
Then, computer A and B would have a link to the program on the server.

Everytime the program is run off the server, the program needs to
install it's self temporarily on the host computer.  When that user
logs off, the program's install file is deleted.

As long as you don't have two computers using the program at once, you
won't have breeched your contractual allowence of useage for the
program.

So, although this probibly isn't that answer you were hoping for, you
can do this by buying a cheap computer, and installing one of these
program servers on it.

That, however, will cost you a lot more than an extra licence key would =P

I'm suprize you havn't come across this scenario at a school or
college. All programs on college clone PC's run software stored on a
remote computer, with links flying around...

Good idea though :)