Is there any way to connect to Windows PowerShell from Ubuntu

Question

I don't want to connect thru rdesktop, I would like to know if there are any other method thru which I can connect to Windows PowerShell.

Will rlogin work, If so how does it work?

Edit

Why not use rdesktop?

I wanted to run some background jobs in Windows without having to
go thru the GUI login everytime<rdesktop>; 

I wanted to write some shell scripts to perform some daily/weekly remote    
maintenance jobs in windows. Also would like to shutdown/log off windows 
machine thru shell scripts.

Answer 1

There's a proprietary tool PowerShell SSH Server that will let you log in over SSH.

You can also try installing the Cygwin SSH server and running PowerShell under that.

Answer 2

You can also use WinSSHD from Bitvise and set the Terminal shell for each allowed user as "powershell.exe".