Remote Administration of Windows XP through the Command Line

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CalvinR picture CalvinR · Mar 20, 2009 · Viewed 33.5k times · Source

Does anyone know of a good way to do remote administration of a Windows XP machine using just the command line?

At the moment the only things it needs to do is to be able to install applications/patches, and transfer files to and from the machine, and installing registry patches would be nice as well.

Currently we use a horrible hacked together solution that uses NetMeeting, in the past I've thrown together a proof of concept using SSH for windows (at the time windows 2000) but it didn't work to my satisfaction and was pretty buggy. Which was probably the result of the SSH Daemon I was running more then anything.

I'm pretty much open to anything, however a solution using SSH would be ideal since it's already approved for installation in my organization, and it's free. I work in the Canadian Government so anything free is best, and anything that we've already got approved for installation is even better.

Answer

scottm picture scottm · Mar 20, 2009

psexec will allow you to run commands remotely. Some of the other PsTools can help you kill applications, get a list of processes, etc.

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