title: How to use Selenium Grid to run some commands on the node and system commands locally
body: <p>I'm trying to solve a problem and I was hoping I could do it with Selenium Grid but I'm not entirely sure that it's possible. Here's my problem...I'm developing test cases using Selenium WebDriver and I need my tests to run on a Windows machine however the AUT runs on a Linux server. I have several tools that only run on Linux and I would like to be able to run some commands/tests on the Windows machine and others in the Linux server. For instance</p>
  
  <ol>
  <li>Test Starts -> Firefox launches (Windows machine)</li>
  <li>Login to site (Windows machine)</li>
  <li>Run command in Linux server</li>
  <li>Return running commands/tests on the Windows box.</li>
  </ol>
  
  <p>Alternatively I could figure out how to run those commands remotely from a Windows machine but I'm not looking forward to doing that. </p>