[python-win32] Executing a remote process via WMI in Win32.

[Tim Golden]

After a bit of to-ing and fro-ing (and help from
 Paul Moore) I've had some success with the following:

<code>
import wmi

c = wmi.WMI ("remote_machine")
for p in c.Win32_Process (name="notepad.exe"): print p
c.new ("Win32_Process").Create (CommandLine="notepad.exe")
for p in c.Win32_Process (name="notepad.exe"): print p
p.Terminate ()
for p in c.Win32_Process (name="notepad.exe"): print p
</code>

(Don't do this to a colleague's machine where notepad is
 already running!)

Notes:
This example uses the updated version of the wmi 
 module (at http://tgolden.sc.sabren.com/python/wmi.html)
 but if you're not bothered, all it's doing is attaching 
 to the remote server and then doing a .Get on the class 
 name and calling .Create on the resulting class object.

The process you create won't be visible on the other machine, 
 but you can see it via Task Manager (and via WMI as shown
 above, obviously). Microsoft caveats state that any remote
 process created this way will be non-interactive.

Both Paul & I had Admin privs on the machines we were
 creating processes on, and I haven't checked what happens
 when you try without. However, I expect that you'll have
 some kind of Admin right before you try to do this
 kind of thing anyway.

Hope this helps.

TJG

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