I want to access a Windows machine from Ubuntu. I don't want to connect with to the GUI (rdesktop) – instead I want to connect to Windows PowerShell from the terminal.
This is because I want to administer the Windows machine similarly to how you can administer a headless Linux server: running background jobs, writing shell scripts to perform daily/weekly remote maintenance, shutting down/logging off thru shell scripts.
Will rlogin work, and if so how? If not, what other options are there?
Best Answer
There's a commercial proprietary tool called PowerShell SSH Server (read TechNet description) that will let you log in over SSH.
There's also a free proprietary tool freeSSHd - you can run it and replace the standard
cmd
command shell with PowerShell.Finally, if you'd prefer a free software (open source) solution, you can install the Cygwin SSH server and run PowerShell under that. (Apparently this is slower.)