Powershell: Enter-pssession does not work MacOS

[akelling]

PS /Users/amkellin> Enter-PSSession 10.x.x.x
Enter-PSSession : Unable to load DLL 'libpsrpclient': The specified module
could not be found.
(Exception from HRESULT: 0x8007007E)
At line:1 char:1

• Enter-PSSession x.x.x.x
• ~~~~~~~~
  
  
  
  • CategoryInfo : NotSpecified: (:) [Enter-PSSession], DllNotFound
    
    Exception
  
  
  • FullyQualifiedErrorId : System.DllNotFoundException,Microsoft.PowerShell
    
    .Commands.EnterPSSessionCommand
  
  

Also was able to crash a session trying to enter a pssession.

PS /Users/amkellin> Enter-PSSession x.x.x.x

Unhandled Exception: System.NullReferenceException: Object reference not set to an instance of an object.
at System.Management.Automation.Remoting.PrioritySendDataCollection.Clear()
at System.Management.Automation.Remoting.Client.BaseClientTransportManager.CloseAsync()
at System.Management.Automation.Remoting.Client.WSManClientSessionTransportManager.CloseAsync()
at System.Management.Automation.Remoting.Client.BaseClientTransportManager.Finalize()
[1] 20072 abort powershell

amkellin@Andrews-MacBook-Pro ~/tmp $ uname -a
Darwin Andrews-MacBook-Pro.local 15.6.0 Darwin Kernel Version 15.6.0: Thu Jun 23 18:25:34 PDT 2016; root:xnu-3248.60.10~1/RELEASE_X86_64 x86_64

[andschwa]

PSRP client is in progress!

/cc @paulcallen

[alexandair]

Only remoting over SSH is supported on Linux for now. Please, take a look at "PowerShell remoting over SSH" section in http://www.powershellmagazine.com/2016/08/18/open-source-powershell-on-windows-linux-and-osx/

[akelling]

@alexandair Well that kind of stinks was hoping to manage my Windows servers via my Macbook. But hey good job getting the code out there. I am really excited about this!

[alexandair]

@akelling You can do that already, but you need to go over SSH for now.

[paultravers]

This would be amazing to be able to use VMWare Powercli without having to setup SSH on a windows server.

[andrew-morris]

is this related? it seems that the "libpsrpclient" does not exist yet

PS /Users/amorris> New-PSSession
New-PSSession : Unable to load DLL 'libpsrpclient': The specified module could not be found.
 (Exception from HRESULT: 0x8007007E)
At line:1 char:1
+ New-PSSession
+ ~~~~~~~~~~~~~
    + CategoryInfo          : NotSpecified: (:) [New-PSSession], DllNotFoundException
    + FullyQualifiedErrorId : System.DllNotFoundException,Microsoft.PowerShell.Commands.NewPSSessionCommand

...a la this line:

https://github.com/PowerShell/PowerShell/blob/c1faf1e6e10fc1ce45e84ef6f49ae7136c67a111/src/System.Management.Automation/engine/remoting/fanin/WSManNativeAPI.cs#L2305

#if !UNIX
        internal const string WSManClientApiDll = @"WsmSvc.dll";
        internal const string WSManProviderApiDll = @"WsmSvc.dll";
#else
        internal const string WSManClientApiDll = @"libpsrpclient";
        internal const string WSManProviderApiDll = @"libpsrpomiprov";
#endif

[andschwa]

@andrew-morris, it is in progress! See the PSRP provider. Server (Windows into Linux) is supported, and client (Linux to Windows) is in progress.

[andrew-morris]

thanks @andschwa!

[TravisEz13]

Also, Please see Known Issues - Remoting

[TravisEz13]

@akelling I'm going to close this issue as it is already a known issue. Please let us know if you have any more questions.