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PsTools is a suite of Windows command-line tools to manage and administer Windows Machine in respect to process management.

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PsExec and xCmd

I've recently come into a bit of confusion regarding PsExec and xCmd. It would be great if someone here could help clear this up, preferably with some form of external reference to given for validation. I understand that PsExec and xCmd are tools…
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Psexec renaming multiple workstations

I'm trying to add a local admin user to about 35 workstations on a AD. I am logged into a domain admin account. When I run psexec @wks.txt "net user UserName1 Password1 /add" I get: "psexec could not start net user ... on workstation1. The system…
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psexec on Windows Server 2008 with -s flag: login failure

I'm trying to use psexec.exe to run batch scripts on Windows Server 2008. I cannot use plaintext passwords, so I'm using the "-s" flag, and not providing a username/password. I get the following error: Logon failure: unknown user name or bad…
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Why is my application hanging when ran from the webserver?

I'm using PsExec to run a command line program without having to wait for it to finish to report back to the script that ran it. I'm using a PHP script to run it. When I run the PHP script manually on the server, everything runs fine and works as…
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How to send a pipe with psexec?

I'm trying to execute a pipe on a remote server by using psexec. The command that I'm trying to execute is psexec \\servername DSQUERY USER -name *userpart* | DSGET USER -samid -display Currently, the | pipe symbol get executed locally which is not…
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Unable to issue commands to a remote server when using IP address

I know this is going to sound crazy and I hope that I may just be missing something simple. I am trying to use psexec to restart IIS on a cluster of remote servers. The dept that actually uses the scripts only know the servers by IP address and not…
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Work Around to use Psexec on Windows Server 2003 64-bit

local OS: Windows Server 2003 remote OS: Windows Server 2003 64-bit I have a management server (32-bit) which has many scheduled batch scripts running on. One of the script is to use psexec to launch process on remote host(64-bit). My script just…
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Running remotely an app from a shared folder with PsExec

I am actually not sure that this is possible. let's see: I have a script that runs on a Build server. Let's name this server A. It drops the bins to a shared folder on server B. And I want to run the program on server C. So using caspol I can allow…
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What's the best way to telnet from a remote Windows PC without using RDP?

Three Networks: 10.1.1.0 - Mine 172.1.1.0 - My Branch Office 172.2.2.0 - My Branch Office's VOIP VLAN. My PC is on 10.1.1.0. I need to telnet into a Cisco router on 172.2.2.0. The 10.1.1.0 network has no routes to 172.2.2.0, but a VPN connects…
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psloggedon timeout

I have a list of machine names from my network that I have put in a batchfile to run through the list and show me who is logged onto each. psloggedon \\machineA psloggedon \\machineB psloggedon \\machineC psloggedon \\machineD psloggedon…
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running vbscript with psexec?

Is it possible to run a vbscript remotely with psexec? Normally the field of psexec calls for an exe file, so can this be changed or manipulated to deal with a vbs file?
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Send a batch file to a Windows machine, and execute it

I know PsExec is perfect for sending files over a computer on a network and then execute it on that remote computer, however I can't use PsExec because I'm developing a piece of software and I can't have PsExec as a dependency (for legal reasons…
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PsExec not working on 64bit computers

When copying the .exe to a 64bit Windows computer using the -c flag with PsExec, there's an error executing it, PsExec just stalls there. Anyone else experiencing this?
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PsExec - what if the .exe you run remotely requires user interaction?

I use PsExec to deploy small .exe files to my workstations. Sometimes the .exe, for some reason, is incompatible with the system and opens a popup window with an error or some other message. Is there any way to know when the executable is 'stuck'…
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Running psexec on a remote Windows 7 Enterprise workstation

I can't seem to get psexec commands to work on a remote Windows 7 Enterprise workstation. I'm trying to execute the following command: psexec.exe \\172.16.165.157 -u jc -p testing123 -c -f -i cmd.exe But I keep getting the error: PsExec v1.94 -…
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