PSExec on Windows 2008 R2 Failing "Network name cannot be found"

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Published on 2010-01-10T05:10:14Z Indexed on 2010/04/03 10:03 UTC
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Hi,

We've got a bunch of remote admin scripts which rely on psexec and they do not appear to be working over the network on our new 2008 hosts. An error dump is below:

C:\Users\<user>\Desktop\PsTools> psexec \\<host IP> -u Administrator -p <pass> <cmd>
PsExec v1.97 - Execute processes remotely
Copyright (C) 2001-2009 Mark Russinovich
Sysinternals - www.sysinternals.com
Couldn't access <host IP>:
The network name cannot be found.
Make sure that the default admin$ share is enabled on <host IP>.

We've tried both the machine name and the IP address in with the same results. The same command has worked previously with our Win2K3 hosts - so we're presuming it is some form of security change between the 2003 and 2008R2.

Anyone have any clues?

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