Executing .exe on a remote Windows machine

[Kevin Holleran]

My goodness.... psexec.

thanks.... can't believe that didn't come to me...



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On Thu, Nov 8, 2012 at 9:31 AM, Tim Golden <mail at timgolden.me.uk> wrote:

> On 08/11/2012 14:25, Kevin Holleran wrote:
> > Good morning,
> >
> > I wrote a python script to connect out to a bunch of my remote machines
> > that are running some software.  It modifies a bunch of the config files
> > for me.  After making the changes, I need to restart the software.  The
> > way to do this is to call an .exe passing in a argument 'restart'
> >  Simply restarting services is NOT acceptable & rebooting the machine
> > isn't either.
> >
> > I was trying to find a way to simply call the .exe on the remote machine
> > with subprocess but how can I get it to execute on the remote machine?
> >  These machines do not have SSH.
>
> WMI can usually help with this (although there are limitations on what
> you can execute via WMI). Also people recommend sysinternals' psexec.
> (I've never tried it myself).
>
> TJG
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