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Access another computer on the network with MS-DOS

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Is it possible to access another computer with MS-DOS? If so, how? What is the correct syntax for doing this?

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2008-10-27 at 08:42:09ID23850869
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by: samiam41Posted on 2008-10-27 at 08:44:25ID: 22813696

What are you trying to access on the other computer?

PSTools is one great way to manage a computer remotely.

 

by: samiam41Posted on 2008-10-27 at 08:45:20ID: 22813709

PSTools ->  http://technet.microsoft.com/en-us/sysinternals/bb896649.aspx

That will allow you to see what services and processes are running on a remote pc, will allow you to reboot or shut it down and also to kill processes on remote pcs all from the command line.

 

by: samiam41Posted on 2008-10-27 at 08:48:13ID: 22813740

If you install pstools into a directory on your local pc (tools), your commands would be:

c:\tools>pslist \\remotepc > processes.txt
--That would give you a list of all processes running on remote pc and dump it to a text file called "processes.txt" in your c:\tools directory.

 

by: EXF_PilatusPosted on 2008-10-27 at 09:11:09ID: 22814004

Thanks for your reply: it seems like a great program!

The only thing, and I didn't tell you in my question, is that I have to access and run a program on a linux computer. Does there exist a program for that as well?

 

by: samiam41Posted on 2008-10-27 at 09:37:20ID: 22814229

Hahahahaha!!!  Oh......  Yeah that will make a difference.  Let me check.  I am sure there is.

 

by: samiam41Posted on 2008-10-27 at 09:41:27ID: 22814265

 

by: samiam41Posted on 2008-10-27 at 09:42:34ID: 22814279

I just re-read your last post.  So you will be on a Windows pc and need to run a program on a linux pc?

 

by: samiam41Posted on 2008-10-27 at 09:48:47ID: 22814332

For accessing Linux pc's from Windows, this is one of the more popular options:

Probably the best (most complete) solution is Cygwin, which provides a Unix-like environment under Windows. It should be installed on all the CS Windows machines; when you click on its icon, you should get something that looks like a Linux terminal window, and you can execute the commands described above for accessing one Unix/Linux computer from another. Cygwin is free and available for download at http://www.cygwin.com.

 

by: RDAdamsPosted on 2008-10-27 at 11:44:37ID: 22815464

I am not sure you could access from DOS to Linux or vice versa.  

 

by: samiam41Posted on 2008-10-27 at 12:19:15ID: 22815784

I know we use telnet and ssh to get from our Windows XP pc's into the UNIX (HP9000) server here.  That would be the next closest thing but it wouldn't be like pstools.

 

by: dbruntonPosted on 2008-11-30 at 23:57:01ID: 23066747

>> I am not sure you could access from DOS to Linux or vice versa.  

Yep.  You can.  You have to be running Samba on the server.  You can access files that way but you won't be running them.


And you can telnet from DOS into the Linux box.  See http://www.geocities.com/SiliconValley/Park/2884/dosint.htm for a list of applications to do this.

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