Invoking commands on a Windows box from Ubuntu

[Adam McGreggor]

On Tue, 13 Mar 2007, David Abrahams wrote:

> I have some automated testing processes I need to run on windows 32-
> and 64-bit (virtual) machines.  I want to launch commands, from a
> shell on my linux machine, which act just as though I had invoked them
> from a command shell window in windows.
>
> I've tried running ssh daemons on the Windows boxes, both from cygwin
> (32-bit binaries only but will run on XP64) and from Vandyke Software
> (won't even install on XP64).  In both cases there are differences in
> the environment I get in my remote shells, even if I take care to
> force all my environment variables.  The problems I've been
> seeing have mostly had to do with permissions and samba shares.
>
> Anyway, this seems like it must be something people want to do
> regularly.  Is there a more direct solution?

The lovely insecure telnet? Windows in various flavors does come with
telnet daemon/services.