PS Remoting to Home Server

I wanted to PowerShell remote to my home server, but as it is – for the good reason, that it is impossible – not in the domain of my PC, I have to add it to TrustedHosts.

This is my story.

First, I enabled PS remoting on the home server with a simple

Enable-PSRemoting

Next, I attempted to access the server

enter-pssession server -cre server\administrator

By doing so, I received a very long error message.

I tried with –authentication negotiate. This reduced the error message to 10 lines ;) It told me to configure TrustedHosts with Winrm.cmd.

I looked at Winrm.cmd, but that looked very complicated and this is at the end of the day. Luckily, the WSMAN drive popped up in my mind. I switched to my administrative account and did this

PS C:\Users\user> cd wsman:
PS WSMan:\> dir

   WSManConfig:

ComputerName                                  Type
------------                                  ----
localhost                                     Container

PS WSMan:\> cd .\localhost
PS WSMan:\localhost> dir


   WSManConfig: Microsoft.WSMan.Management\WSMan::localhost

Name                      Value                                                             Type
----                      -----                                                             ----
MaxEnvelopeSizekb         150                                                               System.String
MaxTimeoutms              60000                                                             System.String
MaxBatchItems             32000                                                             System.String
MaxProviderRequests       4294967295                                                        System.String
Client                                                                                      Container
Service                                                                                     Container
Shell                                                                                       Container
Listener                                                                                    Container
Plugin                                                                                      Container
ClientCertificate                                                                           Container


PS WSMan:\localhost> cd .\Client
PS WSMan:\localhost\Client> dir


   WSManConfig: Microsoft.WSMan.Management\WSMan::localhost\Client

Name                      Value                                                             Type
----                      -----                                                             ----
NetworkDelayms            5000                                                              System.String
URLPrefix                 wsman                                                             System.String
AllowUnencrypted          false                                                             System.String
Auth                                                                                        Container
DefaultPorts                                                                                Container
TrustedHosts                                                                                System.String


PS WSMan:\localhost\Client> Set-Item .\TrustedHosts server

WinRM Security Configuration.
This command modifies the TrustedHosts list for the WinRM client. The computers in the TrustedHosts list might not be authenticated. The
client might send credential information to these computers. Are you sure that you want to modify this list?
[Y] Yes  [N] No  [S] Suspend  [?] Help (default is "Y"): y
PS WSMan:\localhost\Client>

Back to my standard user

194 WSMan:\localhost> enter-pssession server -cre server\administrator
[server]: PS C:\Documents and Settings\Administrator\My Documents>

and it worked.

 

Happy remoting