wmic from Linux, wmi-client or winexe

[Gary Stainburn]

Hi folks.

Judging by google this is a can of worms that has been opened a number of 
times but I thought I'd have another go.

I am (re-)implementing a backup solution using Bacula, which has got me 
looking at administering Windows clients from my Linux Bacula server.

I have managed to get winexe working and can connect to Windows clients.  
However, as soon as I try to run wmic, with or without arguments it just 
hangs.  

I have tried using echo and STDIN redirect to try to resolve this as some 
posts seem to indicate that wmic is waiting input but this has not made any 
difference.

by VNCing to a client and doing Start->Run->cmd.exe I can use wmic no problem.

Can anyone help?

Gary