Good morning!

I apologize but I don't really know where to begin with this. Here's what I'd like to do if possible.

I have a few old boxes that I want to put a very thin, no-gui distro of Linux on and start using them as single-task machines for simple things that can just run all day and night.

The tasks I want them to do, however, are against Windows machines.

For example, I'd like to have a single box that cycles through scanning all applicable subnets and, as it finds an online system, it attempts a few steps.

First, it would check whether or not a scheduled task already exists on that Windows machine. If it does, it's done.

Second, if no task present, it would check to see if a specified share exists (say... \\system\taskfolder). If not exists, create it on that Windows machine.

Third, if/when share exists, check to see if saved scheduled task (mytask.xml) exists in \\system\taskfolder. If it doesn't exist, it will put a copy of it on there from the current Linux box to that Windows share.

Fourth, it will then reach out to the Windows machine and run schtasks to deploy the task. Similar to, if I were on a Windows box, I'd use psexec \\system cmd.exe /c schtasks -myswitchesetc...

Is this possible from a basic, stripped down Linux box to a group of identified, on a domain, Windows boxes (of course, I have the correct Win creds)?

some of them obviously possible, some of them may require windows related knowledge.
Especially how do you want to execute commands on which version of windows (like how to find scheduled tasks)?

So you seem to like challenges.

Windows is extremely bad at these kind of things. They tried to patch Windows here and there so a few overly complicated methods can be used to carry out rudimentary tasks.

One of those patches is called Powershell. It seems to be possible to do Powershell over SSH and that should your the solution. Google for "Powershell over SSH" and you'll find some information.

jlinkels

Command line is fine, Powershell as well. All systems will be Win7 to Win10 with at least Powershell v2 available, v5 where I've already had my hands on them. :-)

PoSH over SSH? I've played a decent amount in PoSH and never even heard that referenced. I'll start looking. Thanks for the lead. Like I said with this post, didn't have a clue where to begin. Will check in in a couple of days with what I can find.

Thanks!

just for example:

https://www.nsoftware.com/powershell/server/
https://unix.stackexchange.com/quest...rdesktop-comma
cygwin