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Activate Remote Desktop REMOTELY!!!

Terminal - Activate Remote Desktop REMOTELY!!!
wmic /node:"RemoteServer" /user:"domain\AdminUser" /password:"password" RDToggle where servername="RemoteServer" call SetAllowTSConnections 1
2010-01-25 18:55:05
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Activate Remote Desktop REMOTELY!!!

Have you ever wanted to connect to a win machine with Remote Desktop disabled?

You can activate the permission remotely and then connect to your remote server with the magic wmic.

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When would this not work? What needs to be enabled on the Windows System for this to work?

Comment by freethinker 6 weeks and 2 days ago

This is useful when the remote windows system has Remote Desktop disabled by Group Policy.

See http://support.microsoft.com/kb/306300 for further details.

If you administer a remote machine with Remote Desktop disabled and you need to access it remotely you can re-enable it remotely with the wmic command I've provided.

You don't want to travel to the place where the remote machine is to activate Remote Desktop locally right? ;)

Of course, you need admin privileges... you must be the network administrator...

Best regards,

Comment by vlan7 6 weeks and 2 days ago

What this package is "wmic" ??

I have this message in my Ubuntu

No command 'wmic' found, did you mean:

Command 'wmc' from package 'wine' (universe)

Command 'wmc' from package 'wine1.2' (universe)

Command 'wmix' from package 'wmix' (universe)

Command 'wmii' from package 'wmii' (universe)

Command 'wmii' from package 'wmii2' (universe)

Command 'rmic' from package 'openjdk-6-jdk' (main)

Command 'rmic' from package 'kaffe' (universe)

Command 'rmic' from package 'gcj-4.3' (universe)

Command 'rmic' from package 'gcj-4.4-jdk' (main)

Command 'rmic' from package 'sun-java6-jdk' (multiverse)

Command 'wmlc' from package 'wap-wml-tools' (multiverse)

wmic: command not found

Comment by krot4u 6 weeks and 2 days ago

wmic is a windows command.

There's a port for linux called wmi-client

On your Ubuntu maybe you can install it with this syntax:

sudo apt-get install wmi-client

Regards,

Comment by vlan7 6 weeks and 2 days ago

not working in Ubuntu

Because:

Usage: [-?|--help] [--usage] [-d|--debuglevel DEBUGLEVEL] [--debug-stderr]

[-s|--configfile CONFIGFILE] [--option=name=value]

[-l|--log-basename LOGFILEBASE] [--leak-report] [--leak-report-full]

[-R|--name-resolve NAME-RESOLVE-ORDER]

[-O|--socket-options SOCKETOPTIONS] [-n|--netbiosname NETBIOSNAME]

[-W|--workgroup WORKGROUP] [--realm=REALM] [-i|--scope SCOPE]

[-m|--maxprotocol MAXPROTOCOL] [-U|--user [DOMAIN\]USERNAME[%PASSWORD]]

[-N|--no-pass] [--password=STRING] [-A|--authentication-file FILE]

[-S|--signing on|off|required] [-P|--machine-pass]

[--simple-bind-dn=STRING] [-k|--kerberos STRING]

[--use-security-mechanisms=STRING] [-V|--version] [--namespace=STRING]

//host query

Example: wmic -U [domain/]adminuser%password //host "select * from Win32_ComputerSystem"

Comment by krot4u 6 weeks and 2 days ago

What command have you introduced?

You may be careful about the slash and backslash...

Comment by vlan7 6 weeks and 2 days ago

Alternatively you could use the psexec port for *nix called winexe and do somethin' like this:

winexe -U HOME/Administrator%Pass123 //host 'reg add reg add "hklm\system\currentcontrolset\control\terminal server" /f /v fDenyTSConnections /t REG_DWORD /d 0'
Comment by vlan7 6 weeks and 2 days ago

# wmic

-bash: wmic: command not found

Comment by ozymandias 6 weeks and 2 days ago

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