I used PsExec to copy and run an exe file in a remote machine. I also want to copy a xml file to remote machine. I am able to do this way
PsExec.exe -d -c \\someserver c:\somefile.xml
The above command throws error saying system cannot find the file specified but adds the xml file to remote server.
Do u know any better way of copying files to remote server.
Is there any PsTool available for that?
Or an option in PsExec ?
Edit: (Answer)
I found out that using Powershell we can copy file to remote machines and it worked.
As you can read from psexec help
-c: Copy the specified program to the remote system for execution. If you omit this option the application must be in the system path on the
remote system.
So your xml file is copied on remote sys/USER:[domainname]username]tem and executed, this gives you the error.
If your xml is part of an application you have to run in remote computer, one solution is compress the app with all necessary files in a self-extracting EXE that runs main command when extracted.
If you just have to copy a file, why don't you use a simple script that maps remote folder and then copies file? Something like:
NET USE \\computername\sharename password /USER:[domainname\]username
xcopy .....
NET USE \\computername\sharename /DELETE
PsExec is not designed to copy files across machines. It can only copy the program it is going to run remotely.
If you have access to the remote machine, the copy could be done by running copy c:\somefile.xml \\\\remote-machine\Admin$ before running PsExec.
You can use this pattern with psexec to copy any extension ...
psexec -d -i 2 \PC Name -u domain\username -p password cmd /c copy
\server\location\filename c:\xx\xx\xx
PS: Refer to PSEXEC switches if you're unsure of what -d and i does. However "2" is a session id of remote desktop user that may change every time a new remote desktop session is created.
this helped me copy my exe file into c:\windows directory (one to one copy within same domain) :
PsExec.exe -d -c \\remoteserver -u administrator -p password c:\executable.exe
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I have local Windows 10 and remote Ubuntu server.
I want to automate connection to server and write executable script witch connects by ssh to server and open new terminal from another server.
What it's supposed to look like
I double click on bat
And then script
inits ssh connect
writes password
gives the user a terminal with a ready ssh connection.
That is, it mimics the following
Problems
How to wait ssh password request? All commands executes immediately.
(additional) can I write it in .sh script, run script, execute all in "start" terminal (from which I run .sh script) and then pass ssh control to invoked terminal?
It's best if someone writes a ready-made script
Automatically enter SSH password with script
Answers:
Direct answer - use expects. But sshpass is better. Also RSA-key can be used.
Can`t tell anything.
Can be done without any 3rd party tools like this:
$env:TMPPW=Get-Content -Path 'secure_file.txt' ; $un='MyUserName'
$j=Start-Job -ScriptBlock{Start-Sleep -Seconds 1
(New-Object -ComObject wscript.shell).SendKeys("$env:TMPPW{ENTER}")}
& ssh.exe -q -4 -l $un 127.0.0.1 'whoami'
$env:TMPPW=([guid]::NewGuid()).Guid ; $env:TMPPW=$null
I have made a script that does a really basic task, it connects to a remote FTP site, retrieves XML files and deletes them afterward.
The only problem is that in the past we lost files because they were added when the delete statement was run.
open ftp.site.com
username
password
cd Out
lcd "E:\FTP\Site"
mget *.XML
mdel *.XML
bye
To prevent this from happening, we want to put a script on the FTP server (rename-files.ps1). The script will rename the *.xml files to *.xml.copy.
The only thing is I have no clue how to run the script through my FTP connection.
Some, but very few, FTP servers support SITE EXEC command. In the very rare case that your FTP server does support it, you can use:
quote SITE EXEC powershell rename-files.ps1
Though, in most cases, you cannot execute anything on the FTP server, if FTP is the only way you can access the server. You would have to use another method to execute the script, like SSH, PowerShell Remoting, etc.
But your problem has other solutions:
rename files using FTP; or
delete only the files that were downloaded.
Both are doable, but you will need better FTP client than Windows ftp.exe.
See for example A WinSCP script to download, rename, and move files.
Or you can do it like:
Run ftp.exe once to retrieve list of files;
Process the list in PowerShell to generate an ftp script with get and del commands for specific files (without wildcard);
Run ftp.exe again with generated script.
Actually you do not need to use ftp.exe in PowerShell. .NET assembly has its own FTP implementation: FtpWebRequest.
I tried to upload test.txt using ttpmacro.
This is what I did in the ttl file
exec 'cmd /k tftp -i 100.1.1.1 put E:\tftp\test.txt'
And also tried, the following.
exec 'tftp -i 100.1.1.1 put E:\tftp\test.txt'
PC(100.1.1.1) already up and running tftp server and tftp client also installed in my windows 10 machine. but cmd is oppened without running tftp.
output is something like "tftp is not executable file or batch."
In fact, if I open cmd on windows start menu and copy the same tftp command, it works perfectly.
Anybody knows how I can execute this?
Thank you.
You can't execute the tftp command from the tll macro without elevated privileges, to solve use your macro to execute a .bat file which contains the RUNAS command, detailed below.
RUNAS /profile /user:[your username] "tftp -i 100.1.1.1 put E:\tftp\test.txt"
note - this will execute the tftp as administrator and if the current user has a password, they may be prompted to enter it.
I'm trying to dump DHCP settings from an older server thats being decommissioned. I ran the command fine while on the actual server but when trying to run it using psexec remotely, it keeps failing. The command is: psexec \\$source netsh dhcp server \\$source dump>$dhcpSettings
$source = the server being decommissioned
$dhcpSettings = the path to save the dumped settings
I've tried all sorts of combinations of encapsulating quotation marks but still nothing. the errors I'm getting is, "The system cannot find the file specified" and "The system cannot find the path specified"
EDIT: So I got rid of the path to save the dumped settings and now it works. But how should I format the command so that it'll save the settings to the remote computer's C:\USER.SET\LOG directory?
One solution might be to bundle the command you want to run and the stdout redirection into a single line cmd file and use PsExec -c or -f to copy and execute that file on the remote system. As an example
Create a line cmd file named DHCPSettings.cmd with the following in it and save it to C:\temp\:
netsh dhcp server \\localhost dump >c:\user.set\log\dhcpsetting.log
Then use
psexec \\$source -c c:\temp\DHCPSettings.cmd
You did not really provide any code to go by and I am not sure I understand the all requirements and constraints you have, so consider this as an idea; not the exact commands you need to run. Hope it helps.
I am trying to create a word document on a remote windows machine. What I am trying is to telnet to the remote windows machine and run a perl script that creates word document through Win32::OLE. But it doesn't seem to work. Is this possible? Because my script has {visible} set to 1 but will that telnet session have access to instances of word application? Atleast I tried it didn't work.
Telnet may not be the best tool to accomplish this, I'm not sure what kind of permissions it has. I recommend using PsExec, which allows remote command execution on windows servers. If it works locally, it will work using PsExec.
For example:
PsExec.exe \\remotecomputer -u userName -p Password Perl C:\path\to\file\file.pl
You can use the -s flag to run as system account, and the -i flag to run it interactively on the desktop. Without the -i flag, it will run in the console session.