eriol -- Yes, a cron job would do the trick for a process that must run at fixed and frequest intervals. The Windows scheduler might accomplish the same thing.
Since we've already veered sharply off-topic, I'll go ahead and recommend that you check out dyndns.org or the like; set up your address (they'll give you one like eriol.dyndns.org for free), download some software to your box, and then it will always be available at that fully-qualified name, without any PHP magic; your friends would just point a browser or ftp client to eriol.dyndns.org and start sucking down MP3s. If you do go with a php script (on either end), be careful how you then implement it; anyone could hijack your pointer by connecting to the same script with your "password". Better to do something like encrypt your current [external, of course] IP address (and maybe timestamp and maybe who knows what else, with the more you can throw on the better) with a secret password and send the garbage over the wire to your Linux server; the script there also knows the password and decrypts the stuff and checks to see that the sent IP matches the sending IP (and anything else that you want to check) but you haven't actually exposed your password on the wire. HTH & HAND :-D -- David T-G * There is too much animal courage in (play) [EMAIL PROTECTED] * society and not sufficient moral courage. (work) [EMAIL PROTECTED] -- Mary Baker Eddy, "Science and Health" http://www.justpickone.org/davidtg/ Shpx gur Pbzzhavpngvbaf Qrprapl Npg!
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