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Please excuse the long post but I thought that the code may help in making the question clear. Super Search did not turn up much to go on when I searched for "Win32 authentication". I have a W2k server that is NOT part of a domain. I can connect to it using

net use \\server\ips$ /user:me pass
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'me' being a local user on the server and 'pass' being that users password. I am then able to control the services via Win32::Service. I came up with the following to connect and control the services but this that it is untidy... or is it..?

use strict;
use warnings;
use Win32::Service;

my (%list, %status);

my %STATE = (
    0 => 'unknown',
    1 => 'stopped',
    2 => 'starting',
    3 => 'stopping',
    4 => 'running',
    5 => 'resuming',
    6 => 'pausing',
    7 => 'paused',
    );

my $display_name = shift @ARGV || die "usage: $0 ServiceName MachineNa
+me\n";
my $machine = shift @ARGV || die "usage: $0 ServiceName MachineName\n"
+;
$machine = "\\\\$machine";
$machine =~ s/^\\{2}/\\\\/;

print "Please enter the username to connect as:\n";
chomp (my $usr = <STDIN>);
print "Please enter your Password:\n";
chomp (my $pwd = <STDIN>);

my $cmd = "net use $machine\\ipc\$ /user:$usr $pwd";
print "$cmd\n";
system ("$cmd");

if (Win32::Service::GetServices($machine, \%list)) {
    if (defined $list{$display_name}) {
        if (Win32::Service::GetStatus($machine, $list{$display_name}, 
+\%status)) {
            print "===================================================
+==============================================\n";
            print "The $display_name service on $machine is " . $STATE
+{$status{CurrentState}} . "\n";
            print "===================================================
+==============================================\n\n";
        } else {
            print "Could not find the '$display_name' service.\n";
            print "Names are case sensitive.\n";
        }
    }
} else {
    print "Could Not connect to $machine: ";
    print Win32::FormatMessage(Win32::GetLastError()), "\n";
}

system ("net use $machine\\ipc\$ /d");
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I have tried changing the authentication to use AdminMisc instead of the net use bit. like so...

use strict;
use warnings;
use Win32::AdminMisc;

my $machine = shift @ARGV or die "Usage: $0 ServerName\n";
#$machine = Win32::NodeName() unless($machine = shift @ARGV);
$machine = "\\\\$machine";
$machine =~ s/^\\{2}/\\\\/;

print "Machine Name: $machine\n";

print "Please enter the username to connect as:\n";
chomp (my $usr = <STDIN>);
print "Please enter your Password:\n";
chomp (my $pwd = <STDIN>);


my $LogonUser = Win32::AdminMisc::GetLogonName();

print "Logon User: $LogonUser\n";

if (Win32::AdminMisc::UserCheckPassword($machine, $usr, $pwd)) {
   print "$pwd is correct password for $usr on $machine\n";
} else {
   print "Bad Username or Password\n";
}

print "==============================================================\
+n\n";

if (Win32::AdminMisc::LogonAsUser("$machine", "$usr", "$pwd", LOGON32_
+LOGON_BATCH)){
    print "Successfully logged on.\n";
} else {
    print "Failed to logon.\n\tError: ", Error(), "\n";
}
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The UserCheckPassword works and I get "pwd is the correct password for me on \\server" and it fails if the pwd is incorrect. However the LogonAsUser always fails and the error that I get is "Error: The operation completed successfully." Is there a module that I can use to logon to another server without authenticating to a domain and instead use the remote servers local user account?

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Title edit by tye

In reply to Remote Win32 User Authentication by AcidHawk

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