here is what I did

used PsExec

I setup a sql server job with the following

EXEC xp_cmdshell 'c:\psexec.exe -s \\machineName-u "uname" -p "pwd" -accepteula C:\RemoteProgram.exe'

mike, thanks for your reply..in win 2003 i did check the windows recource kits\tools

I could not find an equivalent for the rcmd

i found elsewhere that there is a remote.exe but...

is rcmd available on a win 2003 machine

can we use rcmd from sql server job scheduler ?

any thoughts would be appreciated

thanks