how to shut down a service on a 2003 server from a NT box?

[kb0ogt]

i am trying to get a bat file that i wrote tol shutdown and start a service that is running on a 2003 server from another machine running a log monitor file.

the machine that is running the log monitor i have a mapped drive pointing to the location of the bat file on the 2003 server.

I can run the bat file fine on the machine it works. but when i have the log monitor on the NT machine call that bat file i get an error stating that the service doesnt exist.

is this a 2003 security thing? how can i get the NT machine running the log monitor to call that bat file successfuly?

 

[LordMarshal]

I recommend a tool called psexec. (I believe it is a sysinternals tool) It acts as a remote command line and will execute anything you want on the remote system. In a batch file the command would be something like:

psexec \\yourserverhere net stop "Your Service Name"

I use it with great success in a number of VB scripts for various administrative tasks.

Hope that helps.

LM