Psexec , cmd and batch file

scripting cmd psexec
Elad Benda picture Elad Benda · May 5, 2010 · Viewed 67.6k times · Source

I have a batch file named a.bat on a winserver2008 Desktop.

That batch file only write the SessionID (from environment variable) to a local eventlog.

I want to execute it remotely using cmd (otherwise the SessionName doesn't appear).

so I have tried

c:\PsTools\psexec.exe \\<Server> -u test2 -p <Password> -i 2 cmd "c:\Users\test-2\Desktop\a"

or

c:\PsTools\psexec.exe \\<server> -u test2 -p <Password> -i 2 "cmd \"c:\Users\test-2\Desktop\a\"";exit

all of these just open a terminal on the remote machine but don't execute the batch.

Any ides?

Best Regards,

Answer

Michael Todd picture Michael Todd · May 5, 2010

Use a /c on the command line after cmd.

So, your first line would look like:

c:\PsTools\psexec.exe \\<Server> -u test2 -p <Password> -i 2 cmd /c "c:\Users\test-2\Desktop\a"

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