I want to automate a very old software (drafix) that can only be run in Windows XP, on a remote desktop.
Would it be possible to write a pywinauto script that would directly interact with the software controls, without the need to send mouse/keyboard clicks on the GUI, and then minimize the Remote Desktop screen or even lock the PC?
I need to open the program, loop through a list of file names, open each one of them and save as a different format.
I did it with some basic GUI automation - clicking on buttons if necessary, sending keyboard shortcuts and entering the file names form a list. But it isn't very reliable, and I would like to minimize the Remote Desktop window and use my PC instead of having it in the foreground.
From what I have read here, it should be possible with some workarounds, and I would need to install an older version of Python (any idea which one?) on the remote desktop to write and run the script there.
What you can do is just copying your script to remote machine and run it there. Regarding minimized or closed RDP there are few workarounds and tricks described in the Remote Execution Guide which summarizes few StackOverflow answers.
There is other way that you can control gui application on remote Desktop with pywinauto. You can use rpyc or Remote Python Call. that is a python library for rpc(remote procedure call)
https://rpyc.readthedocs.io/en/latest/
your remote computer is as server and your host is as client in rpyc.
first you you need to run rpyc_classic.py in remote computer after connect to it and use pywinauto library. for example i use rpyc for start microsip on remote computer with pywinauto.
ip of remote computer is 192.168.222.222.
import rpyc
ip = "192.168.222.222"
conn = rpyc.classic.connect(ip)
conn.execute("from pywinauto import Application")
conn.execute(r"Application().start(r'C:\Program Files (x86)\MicroSIP\microsip.exe')")
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Is there Python programming to connect to the ssid of a router without using CMD?
I have programming working that runs cmd batch files or sends "netsh" commands to the cmd window.
CMD is an excellent debugging tool but I can't believe it was intended to be used seriously for using with own software programming as the cmd editor needs to open, be opened or flash every time a command is sent.
It might help to mention that the stick PC I'm using does not have a physical monitor attached but with a hardware adaption to the HDMI output and VNC software installed so the screen can be viewed on any other computer with a VNC viewer. Mouse and keyboard can also control the PC stick with VNC server running.
As the VNC server will not be active until the Windows 10 has installed itself; precautions such as disabling Automatic Repair at start up, Windows Updates paused or anything else in start up that would require what, will be unseen, requests for mouse clicks or keyboard presses.
It needs programming to connect to a portable router, passively poll the connection to see if the router is still connected and reconnect whenever possible. Without Using CMD.
I have had all this working for a while. It's proving reliable to connect and run but not comfortable to watch because the batch file which loops every 10 minutes uses
netsh wlan connect ssid=YOURSSID name=PROFILENAME interface="WIRELESS NETWORK CONNECTION"
and
'name="name_of_wifi" interface="type_of_network_interface" priority=1'
It keeps opening CMD window and the reconnection first closes the VNC server so on the VNC client the VNC viewer has to be started again.
I haven't used Python yet but before I do I want to know if there is programming and/or libraries available to connect to the ssid of a wifi router without CMD.
Any help on this will be appreciated.
I have a sikuli script which does the Siebel Tools incremental Compilation Task on a Windows Box from Jenkins.
The problem is: When i run the task i always have to open the RDC window open for the task to be executed.As soon i minimize the window the script fails.
Hence if the Sikuli script is running i will not able to use my local system for any other task.
I found some posts on launchpad.net.
this is one reference: https://answers.launchpad.net/sikuli/+question/213636
But it did not work.
Can anyone help on this.
This solution has helped me out:
Close all open Remote Desktop sessions.
Launch the Registry editor (regedit.exe).
Navigate to one of the following Registry keys, depending on whether you wish to modify the Remote Desktop settings only for the current user or for all users on the computer:
HKEY_CURRENT_USER\Software\Microsoft\Terminal Server Client
HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\Software\Microsoft\Terminal Server Client
Create a DWORD value named RemoteDesktop_SuppressWhenMinimized and set it to 2.
Close the Registry Editor.
After these steps are done RDC when minimized will not be suppressed and sikuli will work.
Answer taken from:
https://support.smartbear.com/testcomplete/docs/testing-with/running/via-rdp/in-minimized-window.html
Other solution is to use VNC connection instead of RDC. RealVNC for example.
You setup VNC server on machine that sikuli scripts are running on and connect from your other machine. You should even be able to close the connection window and scripts should still be able to run.
You could just keep the RDC session running in the background. Just don't minimize it. I am doing the same with my tests.
I've got Mac OSX running and want to programmatically manipulate a active RDP session to for instance, perform actions within a launched program within the session (dynamics specifically, yet woudn't hurt to know a universal way).
I don't know if this is possible. Currently using a RDP file to launch the RDP session with credentials and have the process ID of my active session, retrieved via NSWorkspace. With that I can do the basic stuff like closing my session again, yet i want to manipulate the session.
My RDP client currently is Microsoft Remote Desktop.
Would wish to reach my goal in either bash or python.
Here are few ideas:
Use Quartz graphics library in Python to manipulate with RDP client window. Here is a good start: How to list all windows from all workspaces in Python on Mac?
Use libfreerdp via ctypes.
Run RDP session under Wine and use tools such as AutoHotKey, AutoIT or xdottool. See: How to programmatically control X11 forwarded apps?
Use WinRM (pywinrm) instead of RDP to run remote commands/scripts. Check this example. This can allow to run auto tools mentioned above (e.g. AHK script controlling the apps).
Use Python GUI automation library for simulating user interaction in apps.
See also: GUI scipting for Linux.
Write an RDP client that dumps the pixels of the screen. E.g. WebRTC or using libFreeRDP.
If RDP client runs via X11 protocol (Quartz), you can try to tap into X11 requests as per this post.
Use FreeRDP and its API. Its client is compatible with Linux, macOS and Windows.
I have the following situation.
I want to write python code in my Laptop that will take more than 24 hours to run.I am using UBUNTU 12.04 lts.
Is it possible so that I write python code in my laptop, automatically send it to some remote desktop, run there and send the output result to my laptop when done?
one way suggested to me is to use openssh.
But I want to do this in the following way----
Write and Debug Python Code in my laptop.(Solved)
email the code as attachment to ****#gmail.com(Solved)
Other python program in the desktop will automatically download and run the source code(Unsolved)
and email the output file back to my gmail id.(Solved)
what is the python code to download the attachment from the latest email from a specific gmail folder?
If your remote system is windows, a good option would be to use PsExec from SysInternals.
Ex. If your script is long_running.py a typical usage would be
PsExec \\remote-server -c long_running.py
If your remote system is *nix, and your local system is Windows, you can use ssh for remote execution via Plink (part of PuTTY).
plink remote-server#user -m long_running.py
Finally if both remote and local machine are *nix systems, you can simply use ssh
ssh remote-server#user 'bash -s' < long_running.py
Note This is just some possible options, but the idea is remote execution is possible either via ssh or a similar option (like PsExec) for Windows
If both systems are running *nix, you can easily do all your dev work and debugging locally, while still executing remotely:
One time set up:
Mount a folder from the remote box locally
On your laptop, save your project/script to that (now local) folder, or set the mounted folder as your project's save path in your IDE.
Publishing:
Do work
Click the save button
Executing:
SSH into the remote box and open a new screen
Navigate to the folder you'd previously mounted, and run your script.
You can then safely detach and close ssh if necessary (ctrl+a d), and re-attach later:
3a. screen -ls (to find the screen name)
3b. screen -x screen_name
The advantage of this solution is that if you've got an ongoing project requiring frequent edits/changes, you can do all your dev work/debugging locally, and the only work required to "publish" is clicking the save button, starting the screen, and running.
I have been interested in finding an alternative to the UI in SAS for quite some time now. We license SAS on our server instead of our desktops, so furthermore we have to launch a remote desktop application to execute code.
I was able to use a Telnet connection instead to remotely connect to the server, and batch execute SAS programs. Then I was interested in whether a python script could be made to connect remotely, and batch execute code, and this script could be executed in jEdit as a BeanShell script.
So far, I have Python code which successfully opens and closes the Telnet connection. It can do basic shell functions like call "dir". However, when I pass the exact same line that I use to execute SAS from command prompt on the remote server with a telnet connection in Python, nothing happens.
Is it possible the server is preventing me from executing code from a script? I use a "read_until" statement for the prompt before running any code.
Here's a few ideas...
The issue you are having above may be related to Local Security Policy settings in Windows (if it is running on a windows server). I'm far from an expert on that stuff but I remember older SAS/Intranet installations required some rumaging around in there to get them working.
As an alternative to the approach you are trying above you could also setup a SAS session on the server that listens for incoming socket requests as per this article:
http://analytics.ncsu.edu/sesug/2000/p-1003.pdf
And finally... Not sure if this helps or not by I remotely execute SAS jobs using PSEXEC. A description of how I set it all up can be found here:
http://www.runsubmit.com/questions/260/hide-sas-batch-jobs-winxp
Good luck
This paper outlines how you can use a Python script to connect to a Unix server using SSH, copy the SAS program written locally onto the server, batch submit it, and download the results back to your local machine, all using a BeanShell macro script for jEdit.