Creating a non hidden, remote process?

[thomasmcgeown]

Hi,

Im trying to create a process on a remote computer, however i dont want the process to be hidden, i.e if the process is notpad.exe then i want a notepad to open on the remote computer.

However my current code just runs the process and does not show the window.

MINIMIZED_WINDOW is a constant with a value of 1
strings are self explanitory.

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Set objConfig = objStartup.SpawnInstance_
objConfig.ShowWindow = MINIMIZED_WINDOW
errReturn = objProcess.Create(strProcessName, strProcessPath, objConfig, intProcessID)

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any suggestions?

 

[thomasmcgeown]

*bump*

no one got any suggestions?

 

[thomasmcgeown]

for anyone who was interested.. seems this is impossible using the WIN32_Process class, its made non interactive for security reasons apparently, guess it makes some sort of sence.

gonna try and do it by creating a scheduled task with a small amount of time added to the system time.

 

[vanvb]

There is a program that can do this for you. It is a bunch of programs together called pstools from sysinternals. Here is a link to the website for this utility. It is a free download.

http://www.sysinternals.com/ntw2k/freeware/psexec.shtml

Hope this helps!

 

[thomasmcgeown]

thank you for your help vanvb, id like to do this myself tho, a combination of being to proud to admit defeat and knowing that a decent challange will improve my abilities more than taking an easier route!

Thanks again for your suggestion!

Tom

 

[vanvb]

Thomas,
How are you making out on this? I took some more interest as I can think of a need for this myself and I understand not wanting to shell out to another .exe, so I have looked around for a bit trying to find a solution for this and I think that based on your question, I am about where you are. I am executing the process remotely, but it always just shows up as a process in the task manager...that's all it does. This does work when I have the machine name set as the local machine as below. Here is what I have:

Dim strCPUName As String
Const NORMAL_WINDOW = 5
On Error Resume Next

strCPUName = "."
Set objWMIService = GetObject("winmgmts:{impersonationLevel=impersonate}!\\" & strCPUName & "\root\cimv2")
Set objStartup = objWMIService.Get("WIN32_ProcessStartup")
Set objConfig = objStartup.SpawnInstance_
objConfig.ShowWindow = NORMAL_WINDOW
Set Process = GetObject("winmgmts:\\" & strCPUName & "\root\cimv2:Win32_Process")
result = Process.Create("notepad", Null, objConfig, ProcessID)
Debug.Print "Method returned result = " & result
Debug.Print "Id of new process is " & ProcessID

Note: Add a reference to Windows Script Host Object Model

This should work as I have it written out, but it doesn't. The only thing I have found is one refernce on Microsoft's site that says that the Create method used above can't create a. interactive process on a remote machine due to security restrictions. That in mind however, other sources say that it should work. Any thoughts on your or anyone else's mind?

Let me know...