ok, cut and pasted, but changed the username/password to protect the innocent. this is from interactive prompt. let me know if i am still not doing the slashes correctly please. i doubt authentication is the issue.; i can get pid information using WQL queries. objCreateProc.Create expects 4 strings (not objects?), right?
version info: >>> sys.version '2.6 (r26:66721, Oct 2 2008, 11:35:03) [MSC v.1500 32 bit (Intel)]' >>> import win32com.client >>> computer = "servername" >>> strUser = "servername\\my_account" >>> strPassword ="shh_secret" >>> objSWbemLocator = win32com.client.Dispatch("WbemScripting.SWbemLocator") >>> objSWbemServices = objSWbemLocator.ConnectServer(computer, >>> r"root\cimv2",strUser,strPassword) >>> objCreateProc = objSWbemServices.Get("Win32_Process") >>> ProcessID = u"200" >>> objCreateProc.Create(u"cmd /c ping 127.0.0.1 >>> >>c:\\temp\\finall.log",u"c:\\temp",u' ',ProcessID ) Traceback (most recent call last): File "<stdin>", line 1, in <module> TypeError: 'int' object is not callable how can i see the method available? >>> help(objCreateProc) just gives me "Help on instance of CDispatch in module >>> win32com.client:" Thanks David -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list