Netsh has so much potential, but fails at the 75% level

I've been fighting with Netsh for a couple hours now. I burn with
disappointment - it sucks serious ass. It's such a great concept.
Once again, success of a product all comes down to consistency.

As an example of one thing I'd like to do, on my local workstation, or
on Windows 2000, or Windows 2003, I can do this:

C:\>netsh interface ip show wins

Configuration for interface "Local Area Connection"
WINS servers configured through DHCP: 10.10.2.46
10.10.2.60

GREAT. Now Netsh also has -r to let me connect to a remote machine.

C:\>netsh -r deimos interface ip show wins
The following command was not found: interface ip show wins.

What the? Only a subset of commands?

C:\>netsh interface ip show

The following commands are available:

Commands in this context:
show address - Displays IP address configuration.
show config - Displays IP address and additional information.
show dns - Displays the DNS server addresses.
show icmp - Displays ICMP statistics.
show interface - Displays IP interface statistics.
show ipaddress - Displays current IP addresses.
show ipnet - Displays IP net-to-media mappings.
show ipstats - Displays IP statistics.
show joins - Displays multicast groups joined.
show offload - Displays the offload information.
show tcpconn - Displays TCP connections.
show tcpstats - Displays TCP statistics.
show udpconn - Displays UDP connections.
show udpstats - Displays UDP statistics.
show wins - Displays the WINS server addresses.

C:\>hostname
0034-4XWT821

C:\>netsh -r 0034-4XWT821 interface ip show

The following commands are available:

Commands in this context:
show icmp - Displays ICMP statistics.
show interface - Displays IP interface statistics.
show ipaddress - Displays current IP addresses.
show ipnet - Displays IP net-to-media mappings.
show ipstats - Displays IP statistics.
show tcpconn - Displays TCP connections.
show tcpstats - Displays TCP statistics.
show udpconn - Displays UDP connections.
show udpstats - Displays UDP statistics.

Lame, lame, lame.

I know other people are out there trying to do this. I'm a little
puzzled why it's not fully implemented.

I'd love to do this:
for /f %a in (allservers.list) do netsh -r %a interface ip show wins
Doesn't that seem like a nicer way to work with this?

yeah.... for tcp/ip problems ive at times resorted to "netsh int ip reset
c:\resetlog.txt" which works on some machines and on others the command is
not found. obviously a version thing... maybe sp's and patches add/remove
commands?



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> I've been fighting with Netsh for a couple hours now. I burn with
> disappointment - it sucks serious ass. It's such a great concept.
> Once again, success of a product all comes down to consistency.
>
> As an example of one thing I'd like to do, on my local workstation, or
> on Windows 2000, or Windows 2003, I can do this:
>
> C:\>netsh interface ip show wins
>
> Configuration for interface "Local Area Connection"
> WINS servers configured through DHCP: 10.10.2.46
> 10.10.2.60
>
> GREAT. Now Netsh also has -r to let me connect to a remote machine.
>
> C:\>netsh -r deimos interface ip show wins
> The following command was not found: interface ip show wins.
>
> What the? Only a subset of commands?
>
> C:\>netsh interface ip show
>
> The following commands are available:
>
> Commands in this context:
> show address - Displays IP address configuration.
> show config - Displays IP address and additional information.
> show dns - Displays the DNS server addresses.
> show icmp - Displays ICMP statistics.
> show interface - Displays IP interface statistics.
> show ipaddress - Displays current IP addresses.
> show ipnet - Displays IP net-to-media mappings.
> show ipstats - Displays IP statistics.
> show joins - Displays multicast groups joined.
> show offload - Displays the offload information.
> show tcpconn - Displays TCP connections.
> show tcpstats - Displays TCP statistics.
> show udpconn - Displays UDP connections.
> show udpstats - Displays UDP statistics.
> show wins - Displays the WINS server addresses.
>
> C:\>hostname
> 0034-4XWT821
>
> C:\>netsh -r 0034-4XWT821 interface ip show
>
> The following commands are available:
>
> Commands in this context:
> show icmp - Displays ICMP statistics.
> show interface - Displays IP interface statistics.
> show ipaddress - Displays current IP addresses.
> show ipnet - Displays IP net-to-media mappings.
> show ipstats - Displays IP statistics.
> show tcpconn - Displays TCP connections.
> show tcpstats - Displays TCP statistics.
> show udpconn - Displays UDP connections.
> show udpstats - Displays UDP statistics.
>
> Lame, lame, lame.
>
> I know other people are out there trying to do this. I'm a little
> puzzled why it's not fully implemented.
>
> I'd love to do this:
> for /f %a in (allservers.list) do netsh -r %a interface ip show wins
> Doesn't that seem like a nicer way to work with this?
>