On Sun, Nov 9, 2014 at 6:39 PM, Kevin Horn <kevin.h...@gmail.com> wrote:
> Regarding remote access to windows machines, there are several options: > > - Remote powershell (not my area, so not sure how viable this is) > - Use pexec from sysinternals to run cmd.exe remotely (probably on local > network only, and only from other windows machines, so probably not that > helpful) > - Windows comes with a telnet server (obviously not very secure, but you > could use stunnel/vpn or similar to help here) > - WinRM (and pywinrm as has been mentioned). Note that vagrant either > does or will soon support talking to Windows VMs using this method. > It does (and has for a while). We at Enthought automate package builds for linux, mac and windows through fabric (+ winrm on windows) on vagrant-built VMs, and it works well when you need a consistent interface to those environments. We have been building packages as involved as Qt, Pyside or scipy with native MS tools through this way, so I am confident this would work for almost every situation of interest here. David
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