Thread: Client/Server program design

Hi,

I'm currently writing a C++ console application which will reside on a server machine, and will be accessed both locally on the server and from a client machine over a LAN and over the internet. The problem I'm having is deciding whether to write an entire client application, or just get people to SSH into the server and then log into the application normally. I'm willing to code the client, its not exceedingly difficult, but i though i'd get some suggestions before i re-invented the wheel.

cheers

Well what you could do is use DirectX to write the server and the client. That should cut down on your code and effort, that is if the clients dont mind having to install DirectX.

Hmm...interesting idea, use DirectPlay. The only problem with that is that i may wish to run the client application from Linux(sorry i should have mentioned that in the first post)

Thanks for the advice, thats sort of what i was thinking, no point in rewriting the code, and no, its only going to be me using it at the moment, so no GUI necessary.

Cheers!