[wpkg-users] PSExec and bitness...

[Chris]

hi Marco,

as far as I understand: The regular psexec.exe is a 32bit executable 
that wraps around code for 32bit and 64bit systems.
So it works both on 32 and 64 bit systems and is usually the best 
choice.

With one exception (that probably doesn't affect you): The very minimal 
Windows Nano Server (which is primarily intended to be used in Docker 
containers) does *not* contain a 32bit runtime anymore, it can *only* 
execute 64 bit executables (whereas a regular Windows desktop/server 
64bit system can execute both 32 and 64 bit executables). That's why 
some of the sysinternals tools were released as pure 64bit, so that they 
can also be used with Nano server.

So unless you use Nano Server you should be fine with the regular 
psexec.exe.

- Chris


Am 13.02.2020 12:23 schrieb Marco Gaiarin:
> To bootstrap WPKG on new hardware (but also to manage some manual
> install ot packages, and for testing purpose) i've 'wrapped' WPKG in a
> PsExec call, so i can run WPKG as SYSTEM user by default:
> 
> 	%PSEXEC% -d -s -i %COMSPEC% /c "%WPKGROOT%\wpkg.bat" %*
> 
> Now i've noted that PsTools 2.45 have also 64bit binary of PsExec
> (PsExec64.exe). I've never minded abou that but... this mean that
> running 32bit psexec run wpkg in 32bit context?
> 
> This seems 'no' to me (i've ever run psexec 32bit and never had bitness
> trouble) but... i ask here.
> 
> 
> Thanks.
> 
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