C# execute shell command on remote machine

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Hi Guys,

I was just creating a small tool to execute shell commands on remote machine and get output and errors.

I am running my application under all privileges.

Example : I should be able to run dir /a on remote machine and get output and so on for other commands.

I just browsed for it and found that psexec is a tool provided to do this task. But I want to do this using .net framework.

If I will used WMI then I can't know when then process is finished and read output.

Anyone have done that before.

Thanks

Posted 29-Jul-12 21:51pm

sunder.tinwar

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**Zoltán Zörgő** · Answer 1 · 2012-07-29T22:11:00

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Look here: Create a Remote Process using WMI in C#[^]

Posted 29-Jul-12 22:11pm

Zoltán Zörgő

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sunder.tinwar 30-Jul-12 4:30am

thanks for reply. now read this : http://stackoverflow.com/questions/1405209/how-to-execute-a-command-in-a-remote-machine-and-get-the-output-using-c-net

here with WMI approach we can't identify when the process is finished execution.

Zoltán Zörgő 30-Jul-12 4:43am

Might happen. But you have other wmi tools to follow it's execution: http://stackoverflow.com/questions/8915244/create-remote-process-via-wmi-and-wait-for-it-to-exit

sunder.tinwar 30-Jul-12 4:47am

thats gone make my code very critical. I need to handle event for each command if i end up using multithreading.
I am looking for simple C# solution if possible. If not then I will think over WMI.

Zoltán Zörgő 30-Jul-12 5:05am

As I know PSExec is starting a service remotely, and passing the command/application to it. I have not found any Win32API call that might be used to create a process remotely.

sunder.tinwar 30-Jul-12 5:40am

yes i wanted to create something like psexec only. is there any other work around also?

Zoltán Zörgő 30-Jul-12 5:47am

Might worth looking around here: http://talhatariq.wordpress.com/2006/04/14/the-open-source-psexec/

sunder.tinwar 31-Jul-12 4:52am

anyone knows simple .net approach to solve this.