[windows2000] Re: Remote mmc?

  • From: "Sorin Srbu" <sorin.srbu@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
  • To: <windows2000@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
  • Date: Tue, 1 Apr 2008 14:41:17 +0200

Ray Costanzo <> scribbled on Tuesday, April 01, 2008 2:33 PM:

Doh! Should have looked at services.msc first. The Dunce-hat-of-the-day is 
mine... <8-)


> Services have a display name and then their real name.  It seems like
> net.exe is fine with either one.  Like, I think that the service that we all
> know and love and call the server service has an actual internal name of
> lanmanserver, which should make the older folks on this list think of
> simpler times that have past.  :)
>
> You can see the real service name in services.msc if you look at the
> properties.  Just look once and memorize it.  I guess in this case, the real
> service name is popfile.  Nice guess.  :]
>
> -----Original Message-----
> From: Sorin Srbu
>
> Ray Costanzo <> scribbled on Tuesday, April 01, 2008 1:57 PM:
>
> Excellent! Just tried it and it seems to work, except for the fact it
> doesn't
> recognise the full service name for some reason...
>
> Example:
> I want to check on a spamfilter running on a remote server as a service.
> This
> service has the habitual habit to die for no apparent reason on a irregular
> basis. Normally I'd use a psexec command such as:
>
>       psexec \\server -u username -p nottellingyou net start
>
> Which would run a net start on Server and you'd get back the whole list of
> running services, which is not really feasible at all times.
>
> I then used sc according to your sample:
>
>       sc \\server query "POPFile Automatic Email Classifier"
>
> "POPFile Automatic Email Classifier" is the service name. The result from
> the sc
> command is that the service is not found which is kinda' weird...
>
> Doing a
>
>       sc \\server query popfile
>
> Returns a "running" status. If I stop the service manually and rerun
>
>       sc \\server query popfile
>
> It says it's stopped as expected, although flakey, unless I'm missing
> something
> here.
>
>
>
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