Windows GUI Meterpreter Payload Question

[d4rkcon at gmail.com (Dark Con)]

Thanks for the quick response!

That works great, I hadn't even thought of using the sessions command 
from the regular console. I knew there was some simple thing I was 
missing just wasn't sure how to find it.

HD Moore wrote:
> On Wed, 2009-09-16 at 13:34 -0400, Dark Con wrote:
>    
> > I know there's a simple answer to this question but I couldn't find it
> > searching around so I'm hoping somebody on the list will know.
> >
> > I'm using the Metasploit GUI on a Windows box to exploit a system with
> > the Meterpreter payload. Exploit works great, I get a new session in the
> > Sessions pane, double-clicking on the session gives me a terminal on the
> > remote machine, everything works. But the shell that I get dropped into
> > when I double-click the session isn't a meterpreter shell, it's just a
> > regular shell. I used the meterpreter payload (right-clicking the
> > session allows me to view and migrate processes, browse files, etc.)
> > just don't get the meterpreter shell the way I do when using msfconsole.
> >
> > I'm trying to play around with the meterpreter scripts (killav,
> > browserenum), is there a different (or any) way to access these from the
> > GUI? Is there another step to take to get to the actual meterpreter
> > shell from the standard shell that I missed?
> >      
>
> there woohoo! @stephenfewer figured out a reliable arbitrary remote EIP
> on Vista SP1, looks portable to SP2 and other platforms
> That is one more reason why the GUI is going away in the next
> release :-)
>
> To access the meterpreter shell, open a new Console, then type:
>
> sessions -i [id]
>
> Where the [id] matches the session id (sessions -l to list). To use the
> fancy meterpreter GUI features, right click the session in the GUI and
> choose processes/files. The GUI features of Meterpreter will be rolled
> into the web interface once the GUI is retired.
>
> -HD
>
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