RE: run app remotely?

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From: Peter Huang (v-phuang_at_online.microsoft.com)
Date: 02/22/05 

Date: Tue, 22 Feb 2005 05:36:37 GMT

Hi David,

I agree with Gregory's suggestion.

Also here is a freeware tool which will need administrative privilege, you
may take a look.

PsExec
http://www.sysinternals.com/ntw2k/freeware/psexec.shtml

Inside PsExec
PsExec starts an executable on a remote system and controls the input and
output streams of the executable's process so that you can interact with
the executable from the local system. PsExec does so by extracting from its
executable image an embedded Windows service named Psexesvc and copying it
to the Admin$ share of the remote system. PsExec then uses the Windows
Service Control Manager API, which has a remote interface, to start the
Psexesvc service on the remote system.

The Psexesvc service creates a named pipe, psexecsvc, to which PsExec
connects and sends commands that tell the service on the remote system
which executable to launch and which options you've specified. If you
specify the -d (don't wait) switch, the service exits after starting the
executable; otherwise, the service waits for the executable to terminate,
then sends the exit code back to PsExec for it to print on the local
console.

http://www.windowsitpro.com/Windows/Article/ArticleID/42919/42919.html

Best regards,

Peter Huang
Microsoft Online Partner Support

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