QuikJensen, thanks, it helped a lot.

I have setup my ssh-to-powershell environment on Windows, with my powershell .profile and registered my snapins.

I want to run PowerShell scripts from an SSH / PLINK remote session against a Windows Server hosting the SSH Server.

I have setup the following variable in my Powershell profile; eg. $domain = [ADSI] “LDAP://domain_name:389/dc=local,dc=com”

When I run this command on a SSH remote session; $domain.psbase.Get_children()
This is the result…

The following exception was thrown when trying to enumerate the collection: “An
operations error occurred.”.
At C:\posh\getADRC.ps1:7 char:28
+ $domain.psbase.Get_children <<<< ()
+ CategoryInfo : NotSpecified: (:) [], ExtendedTypeSystemException
+ FullyQualifiedErrorId : ExceptionInGetEnumerator

I have also placed the two commands in a .PS1 file and executed it via PLINK; eg. PLINK.EXE my_session_name C:\Scripts\getADRC.PS1
This is the result…

The following exception was thrown when trying to enumerate the collection: "An
operations error occurred.".
At C:\Scripts\getADRC.PS1:7 char:28
+ $domain.psbase.Get_children <<<< ()
+ CategoryInfo : NotSpecified: (:) [], ExtendedTypeSystemException
+ FullyQualifiedErrorId : ExceptionInGetEnumerator

I would appreciate any help that I can get.

Also would appreciate it – if you could share any example scripts that you have written to run from a unix SSH session on to a Windows POSH session.

Thanks.

If you try to run powershell scripts in cygwin command line you may expect a black screen if you have the following configuration :
– open the file c:\cygwin\cygwin.bat
– remove the “tty” from the line set “CYGWIN=binmode ntsec”
Then you should be able to execute powershell script in the local system but not yet with ssh.

Then to run Powershell scripts through SSH you have to open the ssh connection with the option “-f” :
> ssh -f my.server.com

or without interactive mode :
> ssh -f administrator@my.server.com “powershell mycommand.exe”

Hope it will help some of you !!

(I don’t know how to pass the option -f to putty, so it doesn’t work with putty)

I have the exact same problem, I’ve tried with linux SSH and Tectia for windows if I ssh interactively I can run powershell scripts fine. If I try and run them from command line it just waits, until I hit CTR+C then it runs the script.

Have you had any luck?

Thanks

powershell -command “”

This works in cmd.exe but not in cygwin. Any ideas what could be wrong?

What would be really useful is to put the above in a ssh command:

ssh administrator@win_server powershell -command “”

With passwordless login, this command could be part of a script that could, e.g., perform the same command on a large number of windows servers almost simultaneously. (Such things are routinely done for Linux servers.) Has anybody tried this?

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