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I've 8 computers running Windows 8 (the basic edition) and I'm trying to run some application on each of them with a batch script.
I tried:
PsExec.exe -i -d -u USER -p PASSWD \\PCNAME explorer.exe
But it gives me:
PsExec v1.98 - Execute processes remotely
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Couldn't access GATE1:
Access is denied.
It works fine on other PCs with Windows 7 Professional.
Does it works just on Pro edition? If so, is there a way I can run something remotely on Win 8?
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Turns out that when you have UAC enabled psexec does not work as supposed. We need to set HKLM\SOFTWARE\Microsoft\Windows\CurrentVersion\Policies\System\EnableLUA to 0 then psexec starts working as expected. Highly active question.
To start using PsExec, just close the existing PowerShell console and launch a new one. If you want to use it in a command prompt, you can launch a command prompt. Whichever you choose, just make sure you launch an elevated session since PsExec requires administrator privileges to run programs on remote computers.
To use PXE to deploy an OS, distribute both x86 and x64 PXE-enabled boot images to one or more PXE-enabled distribution points. To enable PXE on a boot image, select Deploy this boot image from the PXE-enabled distribution point from the Data Source tab in the boot image properties.
I resolved the same PsExec "Access is Denied" error on a Windows 8 Pro 64-bit target machine with the following registry modification on the target machine:
Registry Location: HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\Software\Microsoft\Windows\CurrentVersion\Policies\System
Add DWORD LocalAccountTokenFilterPolicy
Set LocalAccountTokenFilterPolicy to 1
(Reboot)
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