Question

Basically, I’m trying to run the batch file that was copied on the remote machine, by the way, this is my first attempt at coding, so please be nice but critique it if you want, I’m still learning the language and had to spend 3 hours to get this far, thank god for Google, LOL.

Code:

using System;
using System.Collections.Generic;
using System.ComponentModel;
using System.Data;
using System.Drawing;
using System.Linq;
using System.Text;
using System.Windows.Forms;

namespace WindowsFormsApplication4
{
    public partial class Form1 : Form
    {
        public Form1()
        {
            InitializeComponent();
        }

        private void cleanerBtn_Click(object sender, EventArgs e)
        {
            //Copying Batch File to Remote Host
            string fileToCopy = "C:\\Clean.bat";
            string newLocation = hostName.Text;
            string newFile = (newLocation + "\\clean.bat");

            System.IO.File.Copy(fileToCopy, newLocation);

            //Run PsExec
            string psExec = "psexec -s "+newLocation+" cmd";
            System.Diagnostics.Process.Start("CMD.exe", psExec);

            //Run Batch File using PsExec


            //Removing Batch File from Remote Host
            System.IO.File.Delete(newFile);

        }

    }
}

Thanks in advance.

Answer 1

From PSExec help:

-c Copy the specified program to the remote system for
execution. If you omit this option the application
must be in the system path on the remote system.

Use that flag to make PSExec copy the batch file that you want executed to the remote system and run it. You don’t have to write extra code to do that.

Basically you want to do:

psexec \\server cmd.exe /c file_you_want_to_run.bat