Starting and stopping services remotely on WindowsXP/2003/Vista

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Hi there

Anybody have experience with remotely starting and stopping services from the command line in Windows?

I want to write a batch file to enable one PC to stop a specific service on a couple of windowsXP PC's, do some processing, then start the service up again after processing completed.

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Libs
 
use the sc command.

sc \\servername stop shortservicename

This generally works easily in a domain environment. Workgroup environment may give authentication issues
 
Psservice in the same package from sysinternals will do exactly what you want.
You can even use it to scan every Pc on your network for a specific service.

Can set service modes as well (auto, disabled, manual, etc)
 
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