I need to remotely execute a file on a network share. In searching I found a post by tachyon that got me close. With his code I can remote execute any local file on the remote computer. However, when I try to remote execute a file on a network share I get access denied.

I am passing is the correct authentication but I wonder if it is not getting the credentials, or someting?

Is there a way to remote execute a file on a network share?

#!perl
use strict;
use Win32::OLE;
use Win32::OLE::Variant;
my $exe='\\machine_b\path\exename.exe';
my $user="admin";
my $pass="admin";
my $server='machine_a';
my $c = connectServer( $server, $user, $pass );
if($c){
    my $pid = startProcess( $c, $exe );
    print "Pid: $pid\n";
    }
else{print "unable to connect to $server\n";}
###############
sub connectServer {
    my ( $server, $username, $password ) = @_;
    $server ||= '.';  # localhost
    my $locator = Win32::OLE->new("WbemScripting.SWbemLocator") || ret
+urn 0;
    my $serverConn = $locator->ConnectServer($server, "root/cimv2", $u
+sername, $password) || return 0;
    return $serverConn;
    }
###############
sub startProcess {
    my ( $serverConn, $exe, $startupFolder ) = @_;
    my $startClass = $serverConn->Get("Win32_Process") || return "Coul
+d Not Connect";
    my $startConfig = $startClass->SpawnInstance_ ;
    my $pid = Variant(VT_I4|VT_BYREF, 0);
    my $retval = $startClass->Create( $exe, $startupFolder, undef, $pi
+d );
    if ( 0 == $retval  ) {return $pid;}
    else {return "Could not start $exe errcode: " . decode_error($retv
+al);}
}
################
sub decode_error {
    my %h = (
        1    =>    "Not Supported",
        2    =>    "Access Denied",
        3    =>    "Dependent Services Running",
        4    =>    "Invalid Service Control",
        5    =>    "Service Cannot Accept Control",
        6    =>    "Service Not Active",
        7    =>    "Service Request Timeout",
        8    =>    "Unknown Failure",
        9    =>    "Path Not Found",
        10    =>    "Service Already Running",
        11    =>    "Service Database Locked",
        12    =>    "Service Dependency Deleted",
        13    =>    "Service Dependency Failure",
        14    =>    "Service Disabled",
        15    =>    "Service Logon Failure",
        16    =>    "Service Marked For Deletion",
        17    =>    "Service No Thread",
        18    =>    "Status Circular Dependency",
        19    =>    "Status Duplicate Name",
        20    =>    "Status Invalid Name",
        21    =>    "Status Invalid Parameter",
        22    =>    "Status Invalid Service Account",
        23    =>    "Status Service Exists",
        24    =>    "Service Already Paused",
    );
    return $h{$_[0]} ? $h{$_[0]} : "Can't resolve error code $_[0]";
    }
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