[EMAIL PROTECTED] | It seems as if I am doomed to use additional software on the windows | box. Damn!
'Fraid so. If your question is: given a vanilla Windows box, can I invoke an executable on the Windows box from a Linux box? I believe the later versions of Windows run or can run Terminal Services by default, which can be invoked by the Remote Desktop protocol, but not -- I think -- any kind of Shell. Could be wrong. Of course, there are a thousand and one ways of doing this if you're prepared to have a long-running process (in Python or anything else which takes your fancy) which you can connect to with some command or other. Obvious possibilities in the Python line are: Pyro, XML-RPC, a socket server, Twisted, and so on. But you probably knew that. | The "unclarity" is in the authentication for the remote box. If I wish | to start a process on a remote box with another user's credentials | (other than the user I am logged in as), I am unsure as to how to | accomplish this. Anything you can add to the docs concerning | this would | be greatly appreciated. Thanks for the info. The answer is to use the slightly ungainly connect_server function. I've added an example on the cookbook page: http://timgolden.me.uk/python/wmi_cookbook.html#connect_as_a_named_user and I'd encourage you, if you haven't already, to look at the docstring documentation for the module, which is sometimes more useful than what I've got on the site. (Note to self: must do something about that). I have an oft-promised and not-yet-released version 1.0 of this module, which has a slightly tidier connection function, allowing you to call just one method (.connect, in fact) in which you can specify whatever combination of username, security context, namespace, etc. is allowed by the underlying calls. Not there yet, though. Hope that helps. TJG ________________________________________________________________________ This e-mail has been scanned for all viruses by Star. The service is powered by MessageLabs. For more information on a proactive anti-virus service working around the clock, around the globe, visit: http://www.star.net.uk ________________________________________________________________________ -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list
