I've got a batch file dmx2vlc which will play a random video file through VLC-Player when called.
It works well locally but I need this to happen on another machine on the network (will be adhoc) and the result (VLC-Player playing the video) must be visible on the remote screen.
I've tried SSH, Powershell and PsExec, but both seem to run the batch file and the player in the session of the command line, even when applying a patch to allow multiple logins.
So IF I get to run the batch file it is never visible on screen.
Using Teamviewer and the like is no option as I need to be able to call all this programmatically from my dmx program.
I'm not bound to being able to call the batch directly, it would be sufficient for me if I could somehow trigger it to run.
Sadly latency is a problem here as we are talking about a lighting (thus dmx) environment.
Any hints would be greatly appreciated!
You can use PSexec if the remote system is XP with the interactive parameter if you state the session to interact with, 0 would probably be the console (person physically in front of the machine).
This has issues with Windows Vista and newer as it pops up a prompt to ask the user to change their display mode first.
From memory, you could create a scheduled task on the remote system pretty easily though and as long as it's interactive the user should see it.
Good luck.
Try using web interface. It is rather easy: VLC is running http server, and accessing particular URL from remote machine will give full control over VLC. Documentation can be found here
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I am trying to reconfigure a known (virtual?) com port on multiple computers on a local network using a batch file.
A USB device we use is installed always as com9 and always comes in as default 9600 baud, and we have to manually reconfigure each station to 57600 baud.
I already have this batch file renaming printers, dns servers, Killing and starting tasks, copying files and a whole lot more, I've experimented with mode, but I'm either not using it properly or it can't do what I want.
I know I can use the GUI, but for the sake of speed, I want the batch to do it.
Sorry if this is a copy, but I'm seeing if anyone has an angle for me, I'm not afraid of personal research, but I'm running into dead ends with no leads.
Ask if you need any clarifications, and thanks in advance.
Powershell is okay too if I know what I need and can still stay in the cmd environment.
What I have: I have Windows 7 on my home PC.
What I'm trying to do: I'm trying to keep TeamViewer running at home so I can always get to my home computer. The other day it got completely messed up and would not let me connect but everything else on the PC was just fine.
Items I've looked at:
I looked at this thread and it does not seem to apply to what I need:
Is it possible to start Teamviewer, to accept connections, from commandline?
... but it does not appear to be what I'm looking for.
I have looked at this:
https://serverfault.com/questions/48600/how-can-i-automatically-restart-a-windows-service-if-it-crashes
... and to test the script at the above URL, I stopped a service on my computer and pointed the above vbs script to that service and the vbs script will not restart that service, so that's not working.
What's happening:
From time to time on my home computer, TeamViewer hangs or gets messed up in some way and I cannot connect to my home computer. The last time this happened, the TeamViewer UI was still running but there was a little red dot next to the tray icon and the id numbers and password were blank in the UI so I had to right click and kill it and restart the computer and all was OK.
What I'd like to do:
Is there a way I can run some kind of script or something that will completely kill all TeamViewer processes and services and restart it completely? I'd like to schedule this type of activity once an hour so I can be assured of pretty much always being able to get into my home computer or else just wait an hour and it should be back up and available?
I have 20 years in IT with networking background, databases, GUI development, website development, hardware and software installation but no experience in brain surgery. I've given it a good try but am now asking for some help.
Thanks.
I think that task scheduler, taskkill and batch script is your friend here.
create a batch file to stop any current team viewer process and then restart it.
crate a batch file something like:
taskkill /IM TeamViewer.exe
start "" "C:\Program Files (x86)\TeamViewer\TeamViewer.exe"
(substitute the path to TeamViewer.exe on your own machine).
Then create an hourly scheduled task to run the script using the highest privileges (using Windows Task Scheduler).
Lookup taskkill for more info on killing tasks from the command line.
Just to add that you'll have to have the PC in a associated in your teamviewer account in a group (e.g. My Computers) and use the same account to connect - otherwise the password change on restart will prevent you connecting (you won't know the new password).
I am using Putty to transfer files from my windows machine to Linux machine.
I am able to transfer, when i run the script and also if i run the same script using Schedule task with my credentials.
if schedule the task to run using system account(SYSTEM) or other user account, file transfer not happening.
Do i need to save any session vales?
PuTTY saves session information in the registry for the current user only, this information will simply be not available for the other accounts you mentioned. So you either need to provide them by exporting yours and importing them in the other user's accounts or simply provide everything needed on the shell command invoked to copy your files. The latter sounds much easier to me in combination with a little script which gets invoked by the task scheduler.
I'm writing a perl script for a website, and I need to be able to control VirtualBox via the website. I'm not sure where to start, or if I'm even trying to debug in the right area, but here goes.
My server is running IIS7 on Windows Server 2008 R2. I'm also running 2 virtual machines through the vboxmanage command line interface. These VMs are running under SERVER\administrator.
When I open my website, it requests a login. I login to the website as SERVER\administrator and click a link that calls my script using an xmlhttprequest. Now, normally, it doesn't matter what user I run these as, but with vboxmanage, if I run the command as a different user, the list of VMs is different. I tried whoami, which returned SERVER\administrator, but %DOMAINNAME%\%USERNAME% returns the domain that the server is connected to as dommainname and SERVER$ as the username. The vboxmanage command then fails.
On the website, impersonation is turned on. When I turn impersonation off, the whoami request changes to be iis apppool\website. Any ideas on how to get around this?
As a final note, I've thought about using runas, but since it prompts for a password, there's no way to call it through scripting (and that would be a poor security decision, I'd imagine).
This is an oft recurring, well-known and well-solved problem. Instead of having one big program dealing with requests from the Web and managing the VM (strong coupling), separate the concern and write two programs, each doing exactly one task.
The user facing program running in the Web server context can continue with limited privileges. The VM manager is a stand-alone program running with the necessary admin privileges, either repeatedly from the scheduler or as daemon/service.
Have the first communicate with the second over a message-queue.
With TestComplete 8 we have a script that is scheduled to start 06:00 every morning by this line:
"C:\Program Files\Automated QA\TestComplete 8\Bin\TestComplete.exe" "C:\Attracs\TestComplete\Attracs\AttracsTEST\AttracsTESTProject.mds" /r /e /SilentMode
The problem is that this often fails. The log remark says:
An error occurred while calling the "Keys" method or property of the "TcxCustomInnerTextEdit" object.
The object or one of its parent objects does not exist.
If I connect to the computer with Remote Desktop and manually run the script it works fine.
There is no screensaver active and the power scheme is set to never sleep.
I have noticed that Testcomplete needs a handle to GUI (the screen is visible) or the script got this kind of errors. Could it be that when it starts it have no handle to the GUI components because they aren't visible ?
From the helps Running Tests via Remote desktop:
However, if you minimize the Remote Desktop window (the window that display the remote computer’s desktop), the operating system switches the remote session to the GUI-less mode and does not display windows and controls. As a result, TestComplete (or TestExecute) is unable to interact with the tested application’s GUI, as the GUI does not actually exist in this case and your automated GUI test fails.
To avoid this issue, you can keep the Remote Desktop window visible during the test run, but this may be inconvenient as it occupies some part or even your entire screen and leaves less space for you to run your local applications.
Any solution for this?
There is a way to enable the console connection in Windows to be active at all times, which allows TestComplete to work without actually connecting with RDP.
From: Running Tests in Minimized Remote Desktop Windows
Log in to the computer from which you
connect to remote computers.
Close all open Remote Desktop
sessions.
Launch the Registry editor
(Regedit.exe).
If you have a 32-bit operating system:
Locate the
HKEY_CURRENT_USER\Software\Microsoft\Terminal
Server Client\ Registry key if you
want to change the connection settings
for the current user only.
-- or --
Locate the
HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\Software\Microsoft\Terminal
Server Client\ Registry key if you
want to change the connection settings
for all the users.
Create a new DWORD value in this key
and name it
RemoteDesktop_SuppressWhenMinimized.
Specify 2 as the value data.
If you have a 64-bit operating system:
Locate the
HKEY_CURRENT_USER\Software\Wow6432Node\Microsoft\Terminal
Server Client\ Registry key if you
want to change the connection settings
for the current user only.
-- or --
Locate the
HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\Software\Wow6432Node\Microsoft\Terminal
Server Client\ Registry key if you
want to change the connection settings
for all the users.
Add the
RemoteDesktop_SuppressWhenMinimized
value to the key.
I found this page
http://www.automatedqa.com/support/viewarticle/12567/viewarticle.aspx?aid=12567
It seems that a solution could be that running TestComplete in a Virtual machine.
/Roland
To run any UI test, the UI needs to be available. Hence, the machine should be unlocked so that TestComplete can perform user actions like mouse click, keys, etc to work.
However, if you have non UI test like running Web Services then it will work.