How to connect to a remote Windows machine to execute commands using python?

Question

I am new to Python and I am trying to make a script that connects to a remote windows machine and execute commands there and test ports connectivity.

Here is the code that I am writing but it is not working. Basically, I want to and it returns with the local machine data, not the remote one.

import wmi
import os
import subprocess
import re
import socket, sys

def main():

     host="remotemachine"
     username="adminaam"
     password="passpass!"
     server =connects(host, username, password)
     s = socket.socket()
     s.settimeout(5)
     print server.run_remote('hostname')

class connects:

    def __init__(self, host, username, password, s = socket.socket()):
        self.host=host
        self.username=username
        self.password=password
        self.s=s

        try:
            self.connection= wmi.WMI(self.host, user=self.username, password=self.password)
            self.s.connect(('10.10.10.3', 25))
            print "Connection established"
        except:
            print "Could not connect to machine"


   def run_remote(self, cmd, async=False, minimized=True):
       call=subprocess.check_output(cmd, shell=True,stderr=subprocess.STDOUT )
       print call

main() 

Answer 1

You can connect one computer to another computer in a network by using these two methods:

• Use WMI library.
• Netuse method.

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WMI

Here is the example to connect using wmi module:

ip = '192.168.1.13'
username = 'username'
password = 'password'
from socket import *
try:
    print("Establishing connection to %s" %ip)
    connection = wmi.WMI(ip, user=username, password=password)
    print("Connection established")
except wmi.x_wmi:
    print("Your Username and Password of "+getfqdn(ip)+" are wrong.")

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netuse

The second method is to use netuse module.

By Netuse, you can connect to remote computer. And you can access all data of the remote computer. It is possible in the following two ways:

1. Connect by virtual connection.

   import win32api
   import win32net
   ip = '192.168.1.18'
   username = 'ram'
   password = 'ram@123'
   
   use_dict={}
   use_dict['remote']=unicode('\\\\192.168.1.18\C$')
   use_dict['password']=unicode(password)
   use_dict['username']=unicode(username)
   win32net.NetUseAdd(None, 2, use_dict)
   

   To disconnect:

   import win32api
   import win32net
   win32net.NetUseDel('\\\\192.168.1.18',username,win32net.USE_FORCE)
   

2. Mount remote computer drive in local system.

   import win32api
   import win32net
   import win32netcon,win32wnet
   
   username='user'
   password='psw'
   
   try:
       win32wnet.WNetAddConnection2(win32netcon.RESOURCETYPE_DISK, 'Z:','\\\\192.168.1.18\\D$', None, username, password, 0)
       print('connection established successfully')
   except:
       print('connection not established')
   

   To unmount remote computer drive in local system:

   import win32api
   import win32net
   import win32netcon,win32wnet
   
   win32wnet.WNetCancelConnection2('\\\\192.168.1.4\\D$',1,1)
   

Before using netuse you should have pywin32 install in your system with python also.

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Source: Connect remote system.