Question

I’m using Microsoft Visual Studio to make a simple remote task manager for experience purposes.

I want to use Process.GetProcesses(string); but there is an access denied exception that won’t allow me to get the remote computer process. In fact it is normal because we should authenticate using a user name and password, but how?

Answer 1

You may try to use WMI for this purpose

/// using System.Management;  
// don't forget! in VS you may have to add a new reference to this DLL
ConnectionOptions op = new ConnectionOptions();
op.Username = "REMOTE_USER";
op.Password = "REMOTE_PASSWORD";

ManagementScope sc = new ManagementScope(@"\\REMOTE_COMPUTER_NAME\root\cimv2", op);

ObjectQuery query = new ObjectQuery("Select * from Win32_Process");

ManagementObjectSearcher searcher = new ManagementObjectSearcher(sc, query);
ManagementObjectCollection result = searcher.Get();

foreach (ManagementObject obj in result)
{
     if (obj["Caption"] != null) Console.Write(obj["Caption"].ToString() + "\t");
     if (obj["CommandLine"] != null) Console.WriteLine(obj["CommandLine"].ToString());
}

For further details on Win32_Process class see MSDN.

hth