Running msinfo32 remotely from telnet

[Jeromy113]

I'm trying to run msinfo32 on a remote machine. I have to
telnet through a Unix server to get to this windows 2000
machine. It lets me run the command and I get my file
output but it stays at 0 bytes after it runs. I'm running
msinfo32 as the local admin accnt. Any help will be
great. Thanks.

Jeromy

 

[Scot Wiedenfeld]

I'm trying to run msinfo32 on a remote machine. I have to
telnet through a Unix server to get to this windows 2000
machine. It lets me run the command and I get my file
output but it stays at 0 bytes after it runs. I'm running
msinfo32 as the local admin accnt. Any help will be
great. Thanks.

Jeromy

I'm guessing you're running:

msinfo32 /report outfile.txt

Or something of the sort. Usually when you run msinfo32 doing a full report
to a non NFO file it takes a while... anywhere from 10-30 seconds. If you
run msinfo32 and do a dir listing immediatally after you will see a 0 byte
file, just wait a while for it to complete.

You what they say, " A watched msinfo32 /report command will never execute".

Just my 2.0134 cents worth (tax included)
Scot Wiedenfeld

 

[Ritchie]

I'm trying to run msinfo32 on a remote machine. I have to
telnet through a Unix server to get to this windows 2000
machine. It lets me run the command and I get my file
output but it stays at 0 bytes after it runs. I'm running
msinfo32 as the local admin accnt. Any help will be

As Scot said, you're probably not waiting long enough. I just tested
this via telnet:-

start /wait msinfo32 /report a.txt

It took about 3mins.

Did you know that msinfo32 can query remote machines? So if you've access
to another Windows box, no need for telnet.

BTW, if you don't require all the info that a full report generates, there
are a number of switches available for gathering specific categories. ie,
this report only takes a few seconds:-

start /wait msinfo32 /report a.txt /categories -all+SystemSummary

See Windows 2000 Command-Line Parameters for Msinfo32.exe
http://support.microsoft.com/default.aspx?scid=KB;EN-US;q255713

 

[jeromy113]

First, thanks for the help. Second, here is what I keep
running into...

The msinfo keeps locking up when I run the following
command thru telnet on the local machine...

start /wait msinfo32 /report outfile.txt

The only thing that I can find is a failed security
audit...

Failure Audit 560
Accesses MAX_ALLOWED
Read Objects
Write Objects

I also get this failed audit if I turn off NTLM on the
remote machine and I telnet into it as the local
administrator.
I know that I don't have to telnet into the machine but
that is all we have through the firewall to our remote
sites. But the above example is on a local network.
Again, thanks
Jeromy

 

[jeromy113]

Thanks for the help...please look at the above post for
more info....

Jeromy

 

[jeromy113]

You wouldn't know where I could find this information?
Thanks

Jeromy

 

[Ritchie]

You wouldn't know where I could find this information?

I guess you're referring to my mention of scheduled task. Just
telnet onto the box and enter someting like:-

at 21:21 /i cmd /c start msinfo32 /report a.txt

then wait...