Re: netsh and DHCP server

From: Stephen Fralich (StephenFralich_at_discussions.microsoft.com)
Date: 01/07/05 

Date: Fri, 7 Jan 2005 14:43:02 -0800

Unfortunately psexec sends the password as clear text, otherwise it looks good.

"Shenan Stanley" wrote:

> Stephen Fralich wrote:
> > If you type netsh /?, it says netsh has -u and -p options, username
> > and password respectively. It also as a -r option to execute netsh
> > commands on a remote server. Logged in as a non-domain user on a
> > remote machine, I want to be able to make changes to DHCP. I've
> > tried the following:
> >
> > netsh -r adserver -u domain\administrator -p password dhcp server
> > show version netsh -u domain\administrator -p password dhcp server
> > \\adserver show version
> >
> > Both of these produce:
> > Unable to determine the DHCP Server version for the Server
> > 192.168.2.2. Server may not function properly.
> >
> > No matter what commands you send to the DHCP server, it always
> > returns the above error.
> >
> > You can execute both the commands below successfully using runas:
> > netsh -r adserver dhcp server show version
> > netsh dhcp server \\adserver show version
> >
> > I need to execute commands using a script though, so runas won't
> > help. I found a freeware program called CPAU (runas with password
> > commandline option), but it doesn't pass errors back through. Even
> > if you have the wrong password it exits 0 and returns "Command
> > completed successfully."
> >
> > Any suggestions about how to make netsh work properly remotely? Any
> > other ideas about how to accomplish what I want would be appreciated
> > as well. Thanks.
>
> PSEXEC from sysinternals.
>
> --
> <- Shenan ->
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>
>

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