Comments on: Remote Command Executor

By: Manu

Manu — Tue, 27 Oct 2009 12:18:19 +0000

Tool seems neat.
Is it encrypting credentials when connecting to a remote server or is it sending them in clear text?

By: hotgazpacho » Blog Archive » Continuous Integration: Executing Remote Tasks with TeamCity, MSBuild, RemCom, and ExecParse

Sun, 18 Oct 2009 03:48:16 +0000

[...] much searching, I came across RemCom, “the open source psexec”. RemCom performed the same function as PsExec, but it did so without [...]

By: SlowStrider

SlowStrider — Tue, 06 Oct 2009 00:10:52 +0000

Thank you so much for this tool!!! I too had the problem that I could not read the output of psexec from within my own program (Java).

With this tool we can have our server-client integration test automatically start multiple remote clients on other machines and wait until they output a message that they are ready and connected and the test can start!!!

By: Luke

Luke — Fri, 04 Sep 2009 05:57:00 +0000

We currently use psexec, but are annoyed by its error with stdout when using a hosted scripting process. (Teamcity -> nant -> psexec falls over)

How is RemCom? I’m a bit worried that it hasn’t been updated since 2006.

By: vembu

vembu — Wed, 15 Jul 2009 09:58:26 +0000

Advice me on how to copy a file into temp folder of remote machine using RemCom.

By: mocariz

mocariz — Thu, 18 Jun 2009 19:52:43 +0000

Hi!

Im sure that The Admin$ share is available, the RPC, Winmgmt and LmHosts services are Running.

There’s another reason to return
Initiating Connection to Remote Service . . . Failed

Thank’s

By: Mark

Mark — Thu, 11 Jun 2009 13:39:35 +0000

Thank you for RemCom – it is a great tool.

I wish I were a talented programmer like yourself.

Would it be hard to see sending the username and password in a secure manner?

I need to run scripts, etc. on remote machines but always need to fear that a remote admin has setup a sniffer that I do not know about it.

Thanks again.
Mark

By: Jared

Jared — Sat, 28 Feb 2009 17:57:01 +0000

I love it.

If you run it with this command line, the prompt will tell you which computer you are connected to:

RemCom.exe \\ComputerName “cmd.exe /K prompt $C%computername%$F$S$p$G”

By: Andy McCall

Andy McCall — Tue, 17 Feb 2009 09:05:54 +0000

Hi there,

We have started to use this very useful tool recently. However it has begun to trigger a Sophos alert ( http://www.sophos.com/security/analyses/suspicious-behavior-and-files/hipsregmod013.html ). I am curious about this as we also use the PsTools suite ( psexec actually ) and this has not triggered Sophos, the mechanics of the two tools are after all very similar.

I know we could simply allow RemCom in Sophos, but I am interested to understand how the two tools might differ in such a way that only one triggers the alert.

Thanks in advance for your help.

Andy

By: Marcela

Marcela — Thu, 05 Feb 2009 23:01:47 +0000

Hi!

I’m Tryin to acces to a Windows Vista computer.
At first i can login, and in my cmd i used
net use \\server\\Admin% /USER:usr (asked me for a pasword) and the operation complete succesfully.
But when i send another process to create a Task Sheduler, i receive the message: “Initiating Connection to Remote Service . . . Failed”.

I have already has File & Printer Sharing and I using an administrator user.

Can you help me?
Thank’s in advanced.

By: meoverthere

meoverthere — Fri, 26 Dec 2008 17:57:16 +0000

Great product. I noticed that with command with spaces ex: reg query xxxxx It has problems. I receive “Error: Invalid command-line parameters” The way I got around it was to have the command within a cmd file and send it to the remote station remcom /c \\hostname c:\temp\batchfile.cmd and that seems to work. In regards to usernames with spaces. I would do a runas /user:domain/adminsitrator password with the alternate credentials on the admin terminal. and then run the remcom app. That way you don’t have the issues. But its a great product and fast. I have had issues with psexec hanging on some workstations even with the -n xx switch. Your app doesn’t hang on a non responsive workstation. Too bad there is no switch to run as service account. But its great.

By: Jeroen

Jeroen — Tue, 09 Dec 2008 15:31:39 +0000

I had some problems with psexec and stdout. Thanks for this great tool! It’s working perfect now!

By: picchio

picchio — Wed, 19 Nov 2008 18:20:34 +0000

Hi.
My remote host haven’t password and return error:

C:\RemCom_bin_1.2>remcom \\hostname /user:uname /c “xxx.exe”

Initiating Connection to Remote Service . . . Invalid password

Enter Password:

Connecting to remote service … Failed

Couldn’t connect to \\hostname\ADMIN$
Access deny

By: anonymous

anonymous — Thu, 13 Nov 2008 08:55:54 +0000

Will this work on Window Vista also?

By: Sean

Sean — Mon, 27 Oct 2008 17:34:20 +0000

Thanks! Been banging my head for weeks on the output issues with psexec…This solved my prob.

By: probedrone

probedrone — Thu, 07 Aug 2008 16:43:54 +0000

I have found the problem. Running the “set” command remotely and directing output to a file, you can see that psexec executes with the given username, while remcom uses “LocalService” as the USERPROFILE environment variable…
any insights?

By: probedrone

probedrone — Tue, 05 Aug 2008 18:25:44 +0000

I was using psexec to run a batch file on a remote machine, and the batch file executes a setup file from the network to install the application to the remote machine.

I tried RemCom and it seem to work when supplied with the correct credentials. My batch file will run (check IF conditions, copy files, write to output files, etc) up until the point where it needs to run the setup.exe file from the network. Then it returns the “Access is denied” error…

I am very curious as to why this would happen… Any idea how psexec can get around the access restriction but RemCom cant?

By: Darryl

Darryl — Mon, 14 Jul 2008 04:30:34 +0000

Hi — any way to pass a username that includes spaces, like: domain/joe smith

I’ve tried the following, and none seemed to work:

/user:”domain/joe smith”
/user:domain/joe\ smith
“/user:domain/joe smith”

Also, are there any problems if passwords contain characters like @ or . (dot)?

By: Naseer

Naseer — Wed, 02 Jul 2008 05:45:44 +0000

1. Can we execute commands that take into a subshell e.g. telnet or invoking cmd.exe etc and then invoking commands within the sub-shell? And how do we do that using this RemCom?
2. Does this remcom support the Hop scenario of command execution e.g. you telnet to system A from where you telnet to a system B and continue this chaining to finally execute a commad like, say “dir”? And how do we do that using this RemCom?

By: Talha

Talha — Sat, 28 Jun 2008 05:59:31 +0000

you can use anyone of them according to ur wish and needs. I can only answer technical or functional details of Remcom. If u dont want to go deep in code then use anyone as long as they work ..