Using impersonation to check services on a remote machine.
Scenario:
User on machine A needs to see if services are running on machine B. User on machine A is your average windows user, no admin rights or anything special. There is an account that is used on machine B that IS an admin account and this account is what is used to install/unistall services, do updates, etc.
The admin account on machine B does not exist on machine A. Can I use impersonation to create an app that will allow the user of machine A to impersonate the admin user on machine B and check the services? Both machines are in the same domain. The users account is a domain account, but the admin account on machine B is only on that machine...if that matters.
So far I haven't gotten this to work. Not sure if it will according to this...
http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/windows/desktop/aa378184(v=vs.85).aspx
If it can't be done this way, can it be done using WMI?
User on machine A needs to see if services are running on machine B. User on machine A is your average windows user, no admin rights or anything special. There is an account that is used on machine B that IS an admin account and this account is what is used to install/unistall services, do updates, etc.
The admin account on machine B does not exist on machine A. Can I use impersonation to create an app that will allow the user of machine A to impersonate the admin user on machine B and check the services? Both machines are in the same domain. The users account is a domain account, but the admin account on machine B is only on that machine...if that matters.
So far I haven't gotten this to work. Not sure if it will according to this...
http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/windows/desktop/aa378184(v=vs.85).aspx
If it can't be done this way, can it be done using WMI?
ASKER
I appreciate the reponse, but I need to be able to do this without an additional external tool.
powershell lets you run scripts on another machine so user PS to run the following command: sc queryex type= service state= all | find "_NAME"
actually I just saw that powershell has a built-in command for this. See http://technet.microsoft.com/en-us/library/dd347591.aspx
lastly, here is a little more info about remote execution with powershell (in general): http://technet.microsoft.com/en-us/library/dd819505.aspx
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so user PS to run the following commandWow, I mistyped that
what I meant to say was
so use PS to run the following command
ASKER
CodeCrusier...Will it matter if that account exists on the client workstation? Or will it just work because it is an admin on the host machine...? I would like to not have to create an account on every workstation. Just that I can supply the credentials in a config file and it will use those to logon remotely and do the work...
It needs to be an account on the remote computer to which you are connecting.
ASKER
K...I have that. So I don't have to have the same account on the client pc that I am connecting from correct?
yes.
ASKER
Thanks
In the command line parameters you can specify the username and password to use for your query.