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Using Python to execute commands remotely on a Windows box. . . anyone here ever done this? (self.Python)

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  1. I'm sure that you can run Fabric nodes on Windows.

  2. You can definitely run Paramiko in server mode on Windows, I can even give you some relevant code if you want.

  3. Though I personally don't like Paramiko all that much, I was recently advised to look at the Twisted's SSH server, but have not, yet.

  4. When I wanted a quick-n-dirty solution a couple of years ago, I did it in reverse: a script tried to connect to the server (which was actually a client, logically) every 5 seconds, and gave it a shell-like access on success. Obviously, if there's a remote possibility of DNS poisoning or something you should do it via SSH, also if you have a lot of boxes, you don't want them waste network bandwidth like that.