I fear that from here we are departing into that unknown country from whose bourne no traveler returns: namely Windows system administration. No doubt somewhere there is a method for granting Telnet the appropariate system priviledges. However, I suspect Microsoft will have their own ideas about how to do remote administration, and it may be better to abandon this approach for the moment and see what the standard MS way of doing this is. Once this is knowm, I am sure Perl will come back into play to drive their approved system programatically, but clearly, before advancing further we need to know how to do it manually.