boat73 has asked for the wisdom of the Perl Monks concerning the following question:

I am trying to find a perl module that might allow me to execute remote commands on a windowz machine. I know about psexec but would prefer to use perl. Does anyone know of anything out there that might head me in the right direction. Thanks in advance.

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Re: execute remote commands Windowz
by rchiav (Deacon) on Dec 17, 2003 at 14:42 UTC
    You can use Win32::OLE and WMI to create remote processes. A quick google returned this which should give you an example. (note: the post is about creating a process not working, but the response shows working examples).
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      Hi,
      rchiav's link shows how to create a new process - you can get the remote workstations 'handle' as follows. 

      #In a "Workstation" module...
sub get_wmi {
        my $self = shift;
        my $name = $self->name or do { 
                warn("Cannot return WMI handle for anonymous workstati
+on.\n");
                return 0; 
                };
        use Win32::OLE ;
        my $wmi = Win32::OLE->GetObject( "winmgmts:{impersonationLevel
+=impersonate,(security)}//$name");
        if ($wmi) {
              return $wmi;        
        }else{
              return 0;
        }   
}

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      You can then use that handle to start/stop processes on remote machines or list shares etc.

      - Mark
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Re: execute remote commands Windowz
by Plankton (Vicar) on Dec 17, 2003 at 16:05 UTC
    You could always get some version of ssh that runs on Windows. Try looking here

    Plankton: 1% Evil, 99% Hot Gas.
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