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Cant use psexec to access WinXP?

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Patrick

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Jul 30, 2008, 11:37:01 PM7/30/08
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I want to access a WinXP machine with psexec but failed with error "Couldn't
access source:"

The settings are below:
Windows XP Professional
Windows Firewall: off

any idea?

Thanks.

Pegasus (MVP)

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Jul 31, 2008, 1:26:21 AM7/31/08
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Psexec.exe works very nicely on WinXP machines.


VanguardLH

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Jul 31, 2008, 2:02:23 AM7/31/08
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Patrick wrote:

We are to guess what were the command-line parameters that you specified
on the execute of psexec? My first guess based on the dearth of info
from you is that you never bothered to specify the username and password
for an existing account defined on the remote Windows host.

3c273

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Jul 31, 2008, 11:14:56 AM7/31/08
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Was the XP machine upgraded Win2k?
Louis

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Patrick

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Aug 1, 2008, 3:42:00 AM8/1/08
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I have tried a few machines and they should be fresh installation of WinXP
SP2.

Patrick

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Aug 1, 2008, 3:44:00 AM8/1/08
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Below is the whole command I used.

psexec \\<server> -u administrator -p password cmd

PsExec v1.94 - Execute processes remotely
Copyright (C) 2001-2008 Mark Russinovich
Sysinternals - www.sysinternals.com

Password:
Couldn't access <server>:
Access is denied.

PS. the credentials are checked without problems.

John John (MVP)

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Aug 1, 2008, 6:47:08 AM8/1/08
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Probably a dumb question but I have to ask, is that the verbatim, exact
word for word command that you used?

John

Pegasus (MVP)

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Aug 1, 2008, 6:53:35 AM8/1/08
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Does the following command work?

net use q: \\YourServer\c$ user:administrator password


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