Please note: In each step I describe below I'm logged in as the same domain user account. I have a web application that controls a service on a remote machine (via ServiceController). When I connect to the website remotely and attempt to control the service, I get an InvalidOperationException: Access is denied. I know it CAN work, b...
I'm using a ServiceController to Start services on a remote machine. When I want to query the services on that machine, I get the following exception: Cannot open Service Control Manager on computer 'machinename'. This operation might require other privileges. What privileges are required to query/start/stop the services on a remote ma...
How can I use ServiceController to tell me if a service has been registered or not? In the code fragment below, the check for a null DisplayName results in a System.InvalidOperationException. Is there a straightforward way of doing this that I'm completely missing? ServiceController sc = new ServiceController("TestService"); if (sc.D...
Hello, how can I send command to a Windows service from C++? Equivalent .NET code is: ServiceController sc = new ServiceController("MyService"); sc.ExecuteCommand(255); ...
Hi, I want to install a windows service on a remote service. In the following blog you have said to use 'servicecontroller' http://stackoverflow.com/questions/469397/installing-a-win32-service-using-msbuild-and-microsoft-sdc-tasks However in the 'ServiceController Members' in the .chm file of 'MSBuild Community Tasks' there is no me...
The conditions are - I don't have administrator privilege - I want to see the status of a service in remote machine (server) I use the following code (vb.net with framework 2.0) to see the status Dim sqlSvc As ServiceController Svc = New ServiceController(My.Settings.serviceName, My.Settings.machineName) If sqlSvc.Status.ToString.Equal...
I have to get the absolute path of a windows service in a .Net Admin application. I am using ServiceController of .Net as shown below. ServiceController serviceController = new ServiceController(serviceName); But I don't see any property here to get the absolute path of the .exe of the service. Is there anyway to get this programmati...
My dev box is a Windows 7 (x64) machine. I've got some code (C#, .net 2.0) that in certain circumstances, checks to see if a service is running and then stops it. ServiceController matchedService = //My Service! //If statements and such matchedService.Stop(); matchedService.WaitForStatus(ServiceControllerStatus.Stopped); Now, I can...
Hi, i am creating an instance of ServiceController using a remote/local machine name and the name of the service. When I type sth. like stackoverflow.com as machine name the contructor blocks for a long time and returns an exception. Example: string MachineName = "stackoverflow.com" ServiceController("RemoteRegistry", MachineName ); ...
I'm using a batch file to stop a Windows service. I'm using the sc command, but I'm open to other ideas, given the question below. The problem is that the batch file proceeds while the service is stopping (the stop argument to sc seems only to request the stop -- it doesn't wait for the stop). How can I modify the batch file to not pr...
Hi, I'm trying to control Windows Services that are installed in a remote computer. I'm using the ServiceController class. I have this: ServiceController svc = new ServiceController("MyWindowsService", "COMPUTER_NAME"); With this, I can get the status of the Windows Service like this: string status = svc.Status.ToString(); But I...
Hello, I'm trying to use ServiceController.GetServices() method to get the list of all the services. In a console application, it works OK, but I get an empty list if I call this method in a windows service. That seems an authentication issue, but I used all the account options ( Local System, Local Service, Network Service, User[which...
I have an application which consists of a service and an executable. Essentially it's a forms application that is responsible for starting and stopping a service under specific circumstances. On windows XP the application manages this fine using the following code: ServiceController controller = new ServiceController(); controller.Mach...