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Executing EXE on Remote Computer


Question:

I am a new Winbatch user and I have a simple objective. I need to open a DOS window on a remote machine (via local network) and start a data processing program in that DOS window. The program must execute on the remote computer - not the local computer. Any suggestions on how to accomplish this task?

Answer:

This particular issue is somewhat more complex that it seems.

There is a set of different avaiable solutions for different cases, depending on exactly what needs to be done, and whether or not the program you are going to run on the remote machine needs to access netowrk resources and/or needs to be visible to someone looking at the computer monitor - and whether or not the computer is in a "locked"/screensaver_ON status.

Running a BAT file that runs a console mode program that does not access network resources and does not need to be visible to the remote user is generally faitly easy, assuming you have remote admin rights on the particular machines.

See...

http://techsupt.winbatch.com/webcgi/webbatch.exe?techsupt/nftechsupt.web+WinBatch/WMI+Run~an~Application~on~a~Remote~Computer.txt

http://techsupt.winbatch.com/webcgi/webbatch.exe?techsupt/nftechsupt.web+WinBatch/WMI+WMI~and~Remote~Interactive~Desktop~Scripts.txt

And ummm the people at http://www.sysinternals.com have a program called psexec that may be handy.


Article ID:   W16999
File Created: 2014:07:18:09:51:38
Last Updated: 2014:07:18:09:51:38