Cant use psexec to access WinXP?

[Guest Patrick]

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.

[Guest Pegasus \(MVP\)]

Re: Cant use psexec to access WinXP?

 

 

"Patrick" <Patrick@discussions.microsoft.com> wrote in message

news:7F0634F0-4F1E-4B99-9966-11CDD3805D45@microsoft.com...

>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.

 

Psexec.exe works very nicely on WinXP machines.

[Guest VanguardLH]

Re: Cant use psexec to access WinXP?

 

Patrick wrote:

> 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.

 

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.

[Guest 3c273]

Re: Cant use psexec to access WinXP?

 

Was the XP machine upgraded Win2k?

Louis

 

"Patrick" <Patrick@discussions.microsoft.com> wrote in message

news:7F0634F0-4F1E-4B99-9966-11CDD3805D45@microsoft.com...

> 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.

[Guest Patrick]

Re: Cant use psexec to access WinXP?

 

I have tried a few machines and they should be fresh installation of WinXP

SP2.

 

"3c273" wrote:

> Was the XP machine upgraded Win2k?

> Louis

>

> "Patrick" <Patrick@discussions.microsoft.com> wrote in message

> news:7F0634F0-4F1E-4B99-9966-11CDD3805D45@microsoft.com...

> > 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.

>

>

>

[Guest Patrick]

Re: Cant use psexec to access WinXP?

 

Below is the whole command I used.

 

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

 

PsExec v1.94 - Execute processes remotely

Copyright © 2001-2008 Mark Russinovich

Sysinternals - http://www.sysinternals.com

 

Password:

Couldn't access <server>:

Access is denied.

 

PS. the credentials are checked without problems.

 

"VanguardLH" wrote:

> Patrick wrote:

>

> > 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.

>

> 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.

>

[Guest John John (MVP)]

Re: Cant use psexec to access WinXP?

 

Probably a dumb question but I have to ask, is that the verbatim, exact

word for word command that you used?

 

John

 

Patrick wrote:

> Below is the whole command I used.

>

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

>

> PsExec v1.94 - Execute processes remotely

> Copyright © 2001-2008 Mark Russinovich

> Sysinternals - http://www.sysinternals.com

>

> Password:

> Couldn't access <server>:

> Access is denied.

>

> PS. the credentials are checked without problems.

>

> "VanguardLH" wrote:

>

>

>>Patrick wrote:

>>

>>

>>>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.

>>

>>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.

>>

[Guest Pegasus \(MVP\)]

Re: Cant use psexec to access WinXP?

 

Does the following command work?

 

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

 

 

"Patrick" <Patrick@discussions.microsoft.com> wrote in message

news:15FF7624-3BB3-428C-AA3A-79E2B44909C1@microsoft.com...

> Below is the whole command I used.

>

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

>

> PsExec v1.94 - Execute processes remotely

> Copyright © 2001-2008 Mark Russinovich

> Sysinternals - http://www.sysinternals.com

>

> Password:

> Couldn't access <server>:

> Access is denied.

>

> PS. the credentials are checked without problems.

>

> "VanguardLH" wrote:

>

>> Patrick wrote:

>>

>> > 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.

>>

>> 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.

>>