On 25 February 2011 14:30, Bill Allen <walle...@gmail.com> wrote: > > I have times when it is useful for me to check the environment of a user > system on our lan remotely while trouble shooting and issue with them. Now, > this is quite easy to do while I am using a windows system via the computer > management console. However, I am trying to do this via a linux > workstation (which is joined to the domain, etc.). I cannot find a native > facility to duplicate the computer management functions, so I thought I > would write a program to fill the need. Not to mention, I thought it might > be a good learning opportunity.
If I understand correctly, you want to view/change the environment variables of some user running under some version of Windows while you are sitting at a remote Linux workstation. I have just done a test here which might help answer your query. I have "ssh" running on this linux box. I have "openssh" [1] running on a Windows 2000 sp4 box on my LAN. I can open a terminal on the linux box and run "ssh" to remote login to the windows box which then displays a windows "command prompt" shell in the terminal where I can use the dos "set" command to remotely view/change the windows environment variables. I expect that once you have this working interactively, it could be scripted using python, but I have not tested that. [1] http://sshwindows.webheat.co.uk Disclaimer: I personally have zero information about this software provider. So do not use it without conducting your own investigation into any security risks that might affect your situation. David _______________________________________________ Tutor maillist - Tutor@python.org To unsubscribe or change subscription options: http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/tutor
