Batch file stops after Psexec

Question

We came up with this as an easy way to delete user profiles on a couple computers. It works perfectly fine but when I try to run it as a batch file it stops right after "psexec \(Computername) cmd". Am I doing something wrong?

cd c:\Users(Username)\desktop\pstools

psexec \(Computername) cmd

net use R: /delete

net use R: \(Network Location) /user:(Domain)(Username) (Password)

xcopy R:(Network Location)\Delprof2 C:\Delprof2 /e/h/c/i

cd C:\

cd delprof2

delprof2 /ed:(Username)* /d:60 /q /u /ntuserini

Answer 1

Because cmd.exe running on your local pc reads the contents of your bat file and tries to execute it. When it runs psexec, it in turn runs cmd.exe on the remote pc. The remote cmd.exe tries to read from stdin (console input) and is waiting for you to type something in. The local cmd.exe has no way of knowing that the next line in the bat file (net use) is intended for the remote cmd.exe. It's waiting for psexec.exe to terminate so that it can run the net use statement locally, which is not what you want.

The easiest solution to is to use psexec's -c switch to copy Delprof2.exe.

 -c         Copy the specified program to the remote system for
            execution. If you omit this option the application
            must be in the system path on the remote system.

Like this.

psexec \\pcname -c delprof2.exe /ed:(Username)* /d:60 /q /u /ntuserini

If you have multiple commands that you need to execute, you can tell psexec to copy a bat file that can execute the command sequence.