Barry, The best I can give you is not a Perl solution, but it's a freeware tool from the Windows guru's at www.sysinternals.com. It's called PsExec, and it can run a command on a remote windows machine (if you have authority on that machine). This should be able to run Outlook on that remote machine, but of course, you will not be able to control Outlook, so I'm not sure if this suits your need.
You can download the tool from: http://www.sysinternals.com/ntw2k/freeware/psexec.shtml A good article on how to use it (by the author, Mark Russinovich) can be found here: http://www.windowsitpro.com/Windows/Article/ArticleID/42919/42919.html PsExec is actually part of a larger suite of command line tools called PsTools, most of which are extremely handy. PsTools info is here: http://www.sysinternals.com/ntw2k/freeware/pstools.shtml HTH, HT -----Original Message----- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Hemphill, Barry Sent: Wednesday, April 20, 2005 5:36 PM To: [email protected] Subject: RE: Starting process on remote machine > -----Original Message----- > From: David Nicol [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] > > On 4/20/05, Hemphill, Barry <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > The main requirement is that we can not install any code on the remote > > systems. > > then you're dead in the water and the best thing to do is walk out > immediately. Any technology that could do what you are asking would > be a powerful intrusion tool (like "backorifice") and would be an > unacceptable security risk which would hopefully be > disabled in a security update lickety-split. David, I appreciate the comments, but I don't think I agree with you. Virtually all unix and linux variants have rsh/ssh and rexec, which do pretty much exactly what I'm looking for without being unacceptable security risks. It appears that it's possible to do what I'm describing using WMI on windows as well - the trick is figuring out exactly how to do it, and whether it can be done in perl. I think the distinction that has to be made is whether the remote invocation (or remote copying, etc.) uses authentication and authorization or some sort. Without it, certainly it would be a security hole, but with appropriate authentication controls, I'd argue it's actually a necessary management tool for systems in any large enterprise, which is why I'm baffled that Microsoft has never come out with any nice, simple rsh/ssh/rdist type tools for windows. I have a third part app which has most of the functionality of rdist, but it sure would be nice if it was a standard part of windows. Anyway, the original question is still pending - any chance someone can point me at a module, script or code snippet that will let me launch a remote process as described in the original email? Thanks again, Barry **************************************************************************** ******* This message contains confidential information and is intended only for the individual named. If you are not the named addressee you should not disseminate, distribute or copy this e-mail. Please notify the sender immediately by e-mail if you have received this e-mail by mistake and delete this e-mail from your system. E-mail transmission cannot be guaranteed to be secured or error-free as information could be intercepted, corrupted, lost, destroyed, received late or incomplete, or could contain viruses. The sender therefore does not accept liability for any error or omission in the contents of this message, which arises as a result of e-mail transmission. If verification is required, please request a hard-copy version from the sender. **************************************************************************** ******* _______________________________________________ ActivePerl mailing list [email protected] To unsubscribe: http://listserv.ActiveState.com/mailman/mysubs _______________________________________________ ActivePerl mailing list [email protected] To unsubscribe: http://listserv.ActiveState.com/mailman/mysubs
