“SSH server” in Windows?

Question

I have some command-line commands to execute on a Windows machine. The programs I need to run are only available on Windows.

Is there a way to easily to do something like I would do with SSH? Example of what I mean:

ssh username@windows-box.mycompany.com "remote command to execute"

...or do I have to Remote Desktop just to do this? (I'd like to run the commands programmatically from another computer rather than running them by hand.)

Answer 1

One approach, of course, is to actually run an SSH server on the windows box. But a more Windows-focused solution is a tool from the SysInternals folks (now part of Microsoft) called PsExec, which is designed to do exactly what you want.

Answer 2

You need a SSH server running on windows. like http://www.kpym.com/2/kpym/index.htm

There isnt any installed by default, And I have been using this for some time. it is good

Answer 3

You can use the freesshd server from fresshd.com. It does work great, you will set-up the server in seconds :)

Answer 4

I've had a lot of good experience installing cygwin and its sshd port. There are wrappers which will turn it into a windows service, and you get the bash shell as an extra.

http://chinese-watercolor.com/LRP/printsrv/cygwin-sshd.html is a decent starting point, you can evaluate if it is what you want.

Answer 5

you can install an SSH server on your Windows machines, or you can turn on Terminal services on windows (check your documentation), and then use Perl(or Python) to do a telnet to the server to execute your commands. See Net::Telnet(Perl) for examples of connecting through telnet