that clears it up a little more.
here's more detail about what i am trying to do:
i have multiple half-life servers running on the remote debian box. 1 of those half-life servers is reserved for friends only using AMX mod for half-life.
i can write an amx plugin which executes a program when someone joins the server, but now i need to write the program that executes.
i plan to write a windows application in c# which pops up some sort of message when someone joins the server.
i was hoping to work with sockets ultimately to do this, but i suppose i could always just write the info to mysql and have the windows client query that table at a set interval.
i just loaded up mono (
www.go-mono.com ) on the debian box so i may be able to use the .net remoting stuff .. but it's all conceptual still.