Running psexec on Microsoft Windows Server 2003 Standard Edition SP2

Question

Hi, I am running the following statement from a client machine that has psexec installed on it:

c:\pstools\psexec.exe \mmtsrv05 -u ppa99 -p password -d -i cmd.exe /c c:\test.bat

This basically executes test.bat on server mmtsrv05. The test.bat program just has the notepad.exe call in it.

This is what happens: it creates the cmd.exe and notepad.exe process on the mmtsrv05 server, but I can NOT see the notepad application on the server being open (and ready to type in). The -i (for interactive option should do this). The strange thing is that this used to work and now it does not any longer.

Anybody any idea??

Thanks, Edi

Answer 1

See this blog post. Also, this Sysinternals forum message.

Looks like you need to download PsExec v1.95 (or newer).

Answer 2

m8 your command work like charm for me thanks