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    Posted: 19 September 2012 at 9:54am
Hello,

I have a file servers.txt under C:\Users\user_name\servers.txt. I want to execute "winrm quickconfig -q" command as follows:

psexec -h \\@"C:\users\user_name\Desktop\servers.txt" -u domain\domainadmin_user_name -p Pa$$w0rd cmd "winrm quickconfig -q"

However, it fails with error:

Error opening C:\users\user_name\Desktop\servers.txt:
Access is denied.

There are no problems in accessing the txt file nor the credentials. It seems that the problem is elsewhere, but could not figure out.

Any ideas?

Thank you in advance.


Edited by tbalci - 19 September 2012 at 11:52am
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Are you running as the user whose desktop you're trying to access?
 
Maybe you're not running with elevated credentials ("as administrator")?
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I assume "servers.txt" contains the list of servers on which you want to run the command?  In that case, you shouldn't have the leading backslashes before the @ sign.  Also, if you are running PsExec.exe without admin rights (e.g., from an admin/elevated Command Prompt) and under a different user account, PsExec probably won't be able to read servers.txt from another user's desktop.  Try putting servers.txt into a common location (e.g., \users\public\documents).  Finally, I would put the -h option after the computer, user and password options and before the command you want to run.  (I can't remember whether that matters, but I've always put the computer specifier first...)
 
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