winexec for linux

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promodus

August 25th, 2008, 04:42 AM

After some trial & error I've gotten winexec to work on Linux.
This is identical to the psexec version by sysinternals.

http://eol.ovh.org/winexe/

http://eol.ovh.org/winexe/winexe-source-071026.tar.bz2

uncompress, then

./autogen.sh
./configure
make proto bin/winexe


Then for example, I have a VM with the netbios name vm-xptesting:

./winexe -U "admin" //vm-xptesting 'cmd.exe'
Password for [WORKGROUP\admin]:
Microsoft Windows XP [Version 5.1.2600]
(C) Copyright 1985-2001 Microsoft Corp.

C:\WINDOWS\system32>

Lastly do not forget to turn off simple file sharing on your windows machines.

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zcubed

August 25th, 2008, 09:22 PM

I have been trying to get winexe to work for a couple of weeks also. psexec is a great tool if you have to support very many windows machines.

I had to run:

sudo apt-get install autoconf
sudo apt-get install automake

to get your code to go.

I also had to use "-U "domain\user" to get it to run under my account.

AND It works! Thanks!


C:\WINDOWS\system32>defrag c:
defrag c:
Windows Disk Defragmenter
Copyright (c) 2001 Microsoft Corp. and Executive Software International, Inc.

Analysis Report
71.22 GB Total, 57.98 GB (81%) Free, 7% Fragmented (14% file fragmentation)

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promodus

August 26th, 2008, 07:11 AM

Revised install procedure:


sudo apt-get install build-essential automake autoconf
sudo apt-get install auto-apt checkinstall

cd /usr/src
wget http://eol.ovh.org/winexe/winexe-source-071026.tar.bz2
tar xvjf winexe-source-071026.tar.bz2
cd winexe-source-071026
sh autogen.sh
auto-apt run ./configure
make proto bin/winexe
sudo checkinstall -D cp bin/winexe /usr/local/sbin/.

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shamil.si

September 10th, 2008, 01:47 PM

There is a simple way to install winexe on Ubuntu/Debian:


sudo apt-get install wmi-client

Then you have winexe and wmic (wmi query utility) installed and ready to use.

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promodus

September 11th, 2008, 03:26 AM

Awesome, gave you thanks.

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c0mputernick

September 30th, 2008, 10:48 PM

There is a simple way to install winexe on Ubuntu/Debian:


sudo apt-get install wmi-client

Then you have winexe and wmic (wmi query utility) installed and ready to use.


Has anyone tried this across the internet? Ive been able to get it to work internally on the lan, but i have servers around the internet i need to administer as well and would love to be able to use this in my backup scripts. any ideas on how to use it? Does it use a special port or something?

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yoshco

March 29th, 2010, 12:04 AM

post revivel
cant get it to run,

apt-get install wmi-client gives
Couldn't find package wmi-client
and if i try

sh autogen.sh
i get

autom4te: /usr/bin/m4 failed with exit status: 1
autoheader: '/usr/bin/autom4te' failed with exit status: 1

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TopQuark_net

April 9th, 2010, 05:14 PM

The wmi-client package has been removed, see http://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=523638

In addition, the build scripts in winexe 0.90 don't work with autoconf >2.60

However, Zenoss is maintaining a copy of winexe that has been updated to work with new versions of autoconf.

So, the following worked for me on karmic:

sudo apt-get install build-essential autoconf checkinstall
cd /usr/src
svn co http://dev.zenoss.org/svn/trunk/wmi/Samba/source
mv source winexe-source-2010.04.09
cd winexe-source-2010.04.09
./autogen.sh
./configure
make proto bin/winexe
sudo checkinstall -D cp bin/winexe /usr/local/bin/.

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MSPdwalt

May 13th, 2010, 04:23 AM

So is there a way to get winexe in a package for Lucid? or do we have to manually install it?

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Phkillah

August 4th, 2010, 05:45 PM

So is there a way to get winexe in a package for Lucid? or do we have to manually install it?

The manual method one post before yours worked for me. @10.04

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angus73

September 6th, 2010, 08:48 AM

The method mentioned by Phkillah also worked for me on Lucid 64bit

Thank you very much!
A.

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ulrichard

July 28th, 2011, 03:40 PM

You can install it from one of these two ppa's:

https://launchpad.net/~richi-paraeasy/+archive/ppa/+packages
https://launchpad.net/~jdthood/+archive/winexe/+packages

Let me know if it works as I'm only getting errors from the Win7_64 box.

Rgds
Richard

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jdthood

August 9th, 2011, 01:31 PM

This PPA:

https://launchpad.net/~richi-paraeasy/+archive/ppa/+packages

contains a package identified as version "1.0.3a". However, the latest release of winexe has version number "1.00". The package in the above archive contains a winexe binary that identifies itself as version "0.80".

Winexe 1.00 is built by the openSUSE build service:

https://build.opensuse.org/package/show?package=winexe&project=home%3Aahajda%3Awinexe

Before I discovered this I made winexe 1.00 available in my own PPA:

https://launchpad.net/~jdthood/+archive/winexe/+packages

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Thomas Hood