How to connect to a remote Windows machine to execute commands using python?

Question

I am new to Python and I am trying to make a script that connects to a remote windows machine and execute commands there and test ports connectivity.

Here is the code that I am writing but it is not working. Basically, I want to and it returns with the local machine data, not the remote one.

import wmi import os import subprocess import re import socket, sys  def main():       host="remotemachine"      username="adminaam"      password="passpass!"      server =connects(host, username, password)      s = socket.socket()      s.settimeout(5)      print server.run_remote('hostname')  class connects:      def __init__(self, host, username, password, s = socket.socket()):         self.host=host         self.username=username         self.password=password         self.s=s          try:             self.connection= wmi.WMI(self.host, user=self.username, password=self.password)             self.s.connect(('10.10.10.3', 25))             print "Connection established"         except:             print "Could not connect to machine"      def run_remote(self, cmd, async=False, minimized=True):        call=subprocess.check_output(cmd, shell=True,stderr=subprocess.STDOUT )        print call  main()  

Answer 1

You can use pywinrm library instead which is cross-platform compatible.

Here is a simple code example:

#!/usr/bin/env python import winrm  # Create winrm connection. sess = winrm.Session('https://10.0.0.1', auth=('username', 'password'), transport='kerberos') result = sess.run_cmd('ipconfig', ['/all']) 

Install library via: pip install pywinrm requests_kerberos.

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Here is another example from this page to run Powershell script on a remote host:

import winrm  ps_script = """$strComputer = $Host Clear $RAM = WmiObject Win32_ComputerSystem $MB = 1048576  "Installed Memory: " + [int]($RAM.TotalPhysicalMemory /$MB) + " MB" """  s = winrm.Session('windows-host.example.com', auth=('john.smith', 'secret')) r = s.run_ps(ps_script) >>> r.status_code 0 >>> r.std_out Installed Memory: 3840 MB  >>> r.std_err