command-line-interfaceconsoleterminalwindows-server-2003
I'm not a sysadmin, but I use a Windows 2003 server at work fairly often for testing purposes, and I'm always annoyed by the limitations of the standard Windows console terminal.
Is there some "industry standard" tool that I don't know about, to replace this terminal with a more fully-featured one? What is the best 3rd party Windows console, if any? Are there any good free/open source tools for this?
What problems are you having with PSExec and W2k3 exactly? We use the two together extensively, in a 500+ W2k3 server environment...
In fact, the whole PSTools suite rocks my world.
EDIT:
This is a followup to your edit of the original ticket.
The problem you're encountering is that "copy" is a function of CMD.exe. It doesn't exist as its own executable in its own right. Same as there is no Del.exe, or MD.exe etc.
If you want your example to work you need to invoke CMD via PSexec, and pass the copy command to that. Here's an example:
psexec -u MyDomain\MyUsername -p MyPassword \\MyServer cmd.exe /c copy c:\sys\util\monitor_localhost.bat blah.bat
The result is as follows:
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PsExec v1.86 - Execute processes remotely Copyright (C) 2001-2007 Mark Russinovich Sysinternals - www.sysinternals.com
1 file(s) copied. cmd.exe exited on fcgwnt53 with error code 0.
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Best Answer
You should check out Windows Powershell.
http://www.microsoft.com/windowsserver2003/technologies/management/powershell/default.mspx
You could also try Cygwin if you're partial to Linux.
http://www.cygwin.com/