looking for a command line tool to copy files to remote computers (similar to psexec)

Question

im looking for a small utility that can copy files over to/from remote windows hosts, and which can take the credentials (domain user and password) as part of its command line, similar to psexec.

i know i can use net use to map the target directory to a drive letter and use xcopy, and i know psexec can upload files to be executed on the remote machine and then delete them, but im looking for a small utility to distribute files to remote hosts that will not be as awkward to use as net use + xcopy

Answer 1

XCopy supports UNC paths.

C:\>xcopy \\computer1\source\*.* \\Computer2\target
C:\>xcopy \\computer1\source\FakeFileNAme.txt C:\

I would imagine with the use of RunAs you should be able to feed it whichever credentials you'd like.

HTH

Answer 2

Not exactly a "small utility", but the pywin32 package of Python for Windows has win32net and win32wnet modules that could be helpful with scripting credentials and such.

Answer 3

You can use robocopy. just open a command window and type robocopy /? to see available options.