Run powershell through winexe/psexec

Question

I'm trying to connect to a Windows 2012 server from Ubuntu.

winexe --user <USER> --password <SERVER> //SERVER cmd.exe 

works just fine.

However,

winexe --user <USER> --password <SERVER> //SERVER powershell.exe`

just hangs.

It displays:

Windows PowerShell
Copyright (C) 2012 Microsoft Corporation. All rights reserved.

but after that it just hangs and won't respond to keypresses.

Is there a parameter I need to pass to powershell to get it to run in interactive mode or anything?

EDIT

If I run the above command through strace, it seems to be waiting for the server to send something back.

epoll_wait(4, {}, 1, 10)                = 0
epoll_wait(4, {}, 1, 10)                = 0
epoll_wait(4, {}, 1, 10)                = 0

Solution

Try

winexe --interactive=1 --user<USER> --password <SERVER> //SERVER powershell.exe

Comments

[phuclv]

Did you try --interactive=1 and --system? Managing Windows Powershell from Linux terminal

[javanix]

That doesn't seem to make any difference.

[phuclv]

no, powershell is a console tool. It can be called from cmd just like bash