I want to access a WinXP machine with psexec but failed with error "Couldn't
access source:"

The settings are below:
Windows XP Professional
Windows Firewall: off

any idea?

Thanks.

"Patrick" <(E-Mail Removed)> wrote in message
news:7F0634F0-4F1E-4B99-9966-(E-Mail Removed)...
>I want to access a WinXP machine with psexec but failed with error
>"Couldn't
> access source:"
>
> The settings are below:
> Windows XP Professional
> Windows Firewall: off
>
> any idea?
>
> Thanks.

Psexec.exe works very nicely on WinXP machines.

Was the XP machine upgraded Win2k?
Louis

"Patrick" <(E-Mail Removed)> wrote in message
news:7F0634F0-4F1E-4B99-9966-(E-Mail Removed)...
> I want to access a WinXP machine with psexec but failed with error
"Couldn't
> access source:"
>
> The settings are below:
> Windows XP Professional
> Windows Firewall: off
>
> any idea?
>
> Thanks.

I have tried a few machines and they should be fresh installation of WinXP
SP2.

"3c273" wrote:

> Was the XP machine upgraded Win2k?
> Louis
>
> "Patrick" <(E-Mail Removed)> wrote in message
> news:7F0634F0-4F1E-4B99-9966-(E-Mail Removed)...
> > I want to access a WinXP machine with psexec but failed with error
> "Couldn't
> > access source:"
> >
> > The settings are below:
> > Windows XP Professional
> > Windows Firewall: off
> >
> > any idea?
> >
> > Thanks.
>
>
>

Below is the whole command I used.

psexec \\<server> -u administrator -p password cmd

PsExec v1.94 - Execute processes remotely
Copyright (C) 2001-2008 Mark Russinovich
Sysinternals - www.sysinternals.com

Password:
Couldn't access <server>:
Access is denied.

PS. the credentials are checked without problems.

"VanguardLH" wrote:

> Patrick wrote:
>
> > I want to access a WinXP machine with psexec but failed with error "Couldn't
> > access source:"
> >
> > The settings are below:
> > Windows XP Professional
> > Windows Firewall: off
> >
> > any idea?
> >
> > Thanks.
>
> We are to guess what were the command-line parameters that you specified
> on the execute of psexec? My first guess based on the dearth of info
> from you is that you never bothered to specify the username and password
> for an existing account defined on the remote Windows host.
>

Probably a dumb question but I have to ask, is that the verbatim, exact
word for word command that you used?

John

Patrick wrote:

> Below is the whole command I used.
>
> psexec \\<server> -u administrator -p password cmd
>
> PsExec v1.94 - Execute processes remotely
> Copyright (C) 2001-2008 Mark Russinovich
> Sysinternals - www.sysinternals.com
>
> Password:
> Couldn't access <server>:
> Access is denied.
>
> PS. the credentials are checked without problems.
>
> "VanguardLH" wrote:
>
>
>>Patrick wrote:
>>
>>
>>>I want to access a WinXP machine with psexec but failed with error "Couldn't
>>>access source:"
>>>
>>>The settings are below:
>>>Windows XP Professional
>>>Windows Firewall: off
>>>
>>>any idea?
>>>
>>>Thanks.
>>
>>We are to guess what were the command-line parameters that you specified
>>on the execute of psexec? My first guess based on the dearth of info
>>from you is that you never bothered to specify the username and password
>>for an existing account defined on the remote Windows host.
>>

Does the following command work?

net use q: \\YourServer\c$ user:administrator password


"Patrick" <(E-Mail Removed)> wrote in message
news:15FF7624-3BB3-428C-AA3A-(E-Mail Removed)...
> Below is the whole command I used.
>
> psexec \\<server> -u administrator -p password cmd
>
> PsExec v1.94 - Execute processes remotely
> Copyright (C) 2001-2008 Mark Russinovich
> Sysinternals - www.sysinternals.com
>
> Password:
> Couldn't access <server>:
> Access is denied.
>
> PS. the credentials are checked without problems.
>
> "VanguardLH" wrote:
>
>> Patrick wrote:
>>
>> > I want to access a WinXP machine with psexec but failed with error
>> > "Couldn't
>> > access source:"
>> >
>> > The settings are below:
>> > Windows XP Professional
>> > Windows Firewall: off
>> >
>> > any idea?
>> >
>> > Thanks.
>>
>> We are to guess what were the command-line parameters that you specified
>> on the execute of psexec? My first guess based on the dearth of info
>> from you is that you never bothered to specify the username and password
>> for an existing account defined on the remote Windows host.
>>