PsExec and Java to connect to a remote Windows Server - windows-server-2008

Question

I have a requirement where I need to connect to a Windows Server from another personal windows machine. I also need to be able to CD into a particular folder on the remote machine, get a list of files in that folder and check for the existence of a file in that folder. When I started researching about this, I could understand that there are two options:
Have OpenSSH installed on the windows server and use clients like JSch to connect - my infra team may or may not approve this request.
Use PsExec to connect and do a similar thing - here is where I am able to connect but not able to figure out how to CD to a directory and get a list of files in any folder there.
Here is what I have in terms of code:
private static void authenticateAndExecute() {
String psCommand = PATH_TO_PSEXEC + "\\PsExec.exe \\\\" + "testdev19" + " -u " + "userName"
+ " -p " + "password";
psCommand = psCommand + " " + "cmd cd c:\\destdir" + " dir ";
String[] cmd = new String[5];
cmd[0] = "cmd.exe";
cmd[1] = "/C";
cmd[2] = psCommand;
cmd[3] = "";
cmd[4] = "";
// Run remote command
Process p = null;
try {
p = Runtime.getRuntime().exec(cmd, null);
System.out.println("Connected..." + p.getOutputStream());
InputStream is = p.getInputStream();
OutputStream os = p.getOutputStream();
InputStream es = p.getErrorStream();
BufferedReader reader = new BufferedReader(new InputStreamReader(is));
BufferedReader errReader = new BufferedReader(new InputStreamReader(es));
String line;
// Read STDOUT into a buffer.
while ((line = errReader.readLine()) != null) {
System.out.println(line);
}
// If no STDOUT check STDERR.
while ((line = reader.readLine()) != null) {
System.out.println(line);
}
// Wait for the process to end.
} catch (IOException e) {
// TODO Auto-generated catch block
e.printStackTrace();
} finally {
if (p != null) {
p.destroy();
}
}
}
All I see after this is run is that the process has ended with a return code of 0. I want to see the list of files in the destination directory. Is this even possible using PsExec or am I going in the wrong path ?
Any help is appreciated...

Answer 1

Please have a look at:
https://www.ibm.com/developerworks/community/blogs/738b7897-cd38-4f24-9f05-48dd69116837/entry/programmatically_connecting_to_remote_systems2?lang=en
that might solve your problem

Answer 2

String psCommand = "<path_of_psexec>/psexec.exe \\\\"+currentServerHostname + " -u " + currentServerUser + " -p " + currentServerPass;
psCommand = psCommand + " " + commandToRunOnRemoteMachine + " " + parameters;
String[] cmd = new String[5];
cmd[0]="cmd.exe";
cmd[1]="/C";
cmd[2]=psCommand;
cmd[3]="";
cmd[4]="";
// Run remote command
File f = new File(getCurrentWorkingDirectory() + "\\lib");
Process p = Runtime.getRuntime().exec(cmd,null,f);