BatchPatch Forums Home › Forums › Re: Strange psexec workgroup behavior
Hi,
I am currently evaluating BatchPatch but I run into 1 issue regarding authentication.
From host A (workgroup, win2008) running BatchPatch I am trying to access system B (workgroup, win2008r2) for patching but I keep getting “Logon failure: unknown user name or bad password”.
On machine A I tried setting up BatchPatch as follows:
Username: username
Password: <password>
Domain: B
This works as long as an active account with that specific name and password is available on both the machine running BatchPatch and the target machine.
When I run this command from the command line using psexec this works fine:
C:UsersAdministrator>psexec \B -u Busername -p <password> whoami
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Busername
whoami exited on B with error code 0.
The psexec behavior is the expected behavior. If I enter the username without the domain part (-u B) this also works fine, but for some reason BatchPatch does allow me to leave the domain text box empty.
Am I missing something or did I just run into a bug? If I can get around this ‘feature’ a purchase will be likely.