PsExec: How to specify session value for the '-i' option?

Hello everybody,

I have a question about the PsExec program, which I could not find
answer to by searching Google.

The question is about the '-i' command-line option:

At PsExec's page (http://www.microsoft.com/technet/sysinternals/
utilities/psexec.mspx), the '-i' option is described as:

In the syntax:
"
[-i [session]]
"

And in the explanations:
"
Run the program so that it interacts with the desktop of the specified
session on the remote system. If no session is specified the process
runs in the console session.
"

So, my question is this: What is this session name? Is it a number? a
string? What is it?

I have Windows 2003 Server installed. I am logged in locally, and also
using Remote Desktop session.

While I can use the '-i' option to interactively run a GUI program
(Notepad for example) locally (the console?) by not specifying the
session, I do not know how can I make the program run interactively on
the Remote Desktop session. I can make a program run interactively on
a given Remote Desktop session on a given computer by specifying the
correct session value/name/number, but I do not know how to do that.

Does anybody have an idea?

Thanks for any reply,

Jonathan

.

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