Log on remotely

[RCE Defiant]

I wonder if someone can help me with this one.

Here's the scenario.

I have a person who has a laptop who is currently outside the office and
unable to log onto the network. This laptop is setup with Windows XP so
that they can log onto the machine locally as a user (not power or admin).
They need more access to the machine as they need to install additional
stuff. I know the admin password of the machine but I cannot give them the
password. They can dial up to the internet, I can ping them from where I am
(a number of miles away). They do not have remote desktop enabled, they do
not have pcanywhere installed or VNC or Radmin. These can't be installed
either as they do not have sufficient rights to thier machine.

I need to be able to change their user so that it is power or admin on their
laptop. I need to be able to do this either over the net or using a
vbscript or something.

Or I need to be able to somehow login as admin and then change the admin
password so I can give it to them.

Any ideas?

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[Matt DuBois [MS]]

This may or may not work depending on the connection between your machine
and their laptop and that your account has admin rights on the laptop. It
will also only work if there is no firewall on the laptop - but since you
can ping them I'm assuming this is the case.

If you get access denied, you can try to "net use \\<computerIP>
/u:<LaptopName>\<AdminAccountName> *" and entering the password (if the
admin account is local on the laptop) or "net use \\<computerIP>
/u:<DomainName>\<AdminAccountName> *" and entering the password (if admin
account on the laptop is a domain account). Replace items in brackets with
the real values. You don't have to do this if you are logged into an
account that has admin rights when you do the steps below.

On your computer:
Start->Run->MMC
File->Add/Remove Snapin
Click Add
Select Computer Management
Select "Another Computer" and put in the Laptop's IP address
Expand Computer Management
Expand Local Users and Groups
Click on Groups
Double Click on Administrators in the right pane
Add the user and Apply.

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[Guillermo]

question:
is there a way to open a remote command propmt (that is, a command prompt
that runs commands in the remote computer?)

thanks

guillermo

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"Matt DuBois [MS]" <mdu...@online.microsoft.com> wrote in message
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> This may or may not work depending on the connection between your machine
> and their laptop and that your account has admin rights on the laptop. It
> will also only work if there is no firewall on the laptop - but since you
> can ping them I'm assuming this is the case.
>
> If you get access denied, you can try to "net use \\<computerIP>
> /u:<LaptopName>\<AdminAccountName> *" and entering the password (if the
> admin account is local on the laptop) or "net use \\<computerIP>
> /u:<DomainName>\<AdminAccountName> *" and entering the password (if admin
> account on the laptop is a domain account). Replace items in brackets
with
> the real values. You don't have to do this if you are logged into an
> account that has admin rights when you do the steps below.

I used some of your suggestion, thanks.

For anyone who is wondering how to actually do this.

Dial up to the net on the remote machine.
Get a net connection on your machine.

Do a net use \\<IP Remote machine> /u:<remote machine name>\Administrator
<admin password>

using the excellent PSExec from sysinternals do

psexec \\<IP of remote> cmd - this runs a cmd window on your machine which
is actually running the commands on the remote machine

net user Administrator <newpassword>

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