On Apr 4, 6:39 pm, ericwoodwo...@gmail.com wrote: > Hi, > I'm trying to auth to remote machines so I can plunder WMI to get > logs and settings and the like. My script works for most of my > machines because they're all in the same domain and I run the script > as somebody who has enough access to get at this stuff but for > machines off the domain I'm stuck. > > Now I'm primarily a sys/network admin and not a programmer. As a > sys admin if I had this problem while trying to pull eventlogs > manually with eventvwr I would simply map a drive to the remote > machine. That would allow me to enter a username/password and then > once I was authed I'd have a session and I'd be able to piggyback on > that session to pull logs. > > I'm looking to do exactly that from inside my script. I could > probably import os and call the net use command to map a drive and get > a session that way but that feels really sloppy to me. I want to be > able to explicitly close this session when I'm done with it too. > > So I figure there's a com object I could call to open this > session for me but I can't figure out what it is. Any help would be > appreciated! > > Thanks
Also I am writing this in Python. So I can use win32com if that's the way to go or I can use anything python 2.6 has built in. I mentioned com objects because I'm using a lot of those currently but if there's a more pythonic way to do what I"m after then I'm all ears. Thanks -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list
