Question

By using Process.GetProcesses, we can list running processes in a remote computer, e.g.

Process [] allRemoteProcesses = Process.GetProcesses("myRemoteComputer");

However, this seems to depend on the permission of my account. It throws exception “Couldn’t connect to remote machine.” if the running user does not have access to the remote machine. Can I specify another account to be used by .NET when checking the processes, similar to the -u and -p switches in PsList?

Answer 1

What I’ve done before is use something similar to what’s described in this article.

using (new Impersonator("user", "domain", "pass"))
{
   Process[] allRemoteProcesses = Process.GetProcesses("myRemoteComputer");
   // Rest of code...
}

An alternative is use to use WMI and query for the processes like what’s described here.