Stop a windows service on a remote machine

Hello,

I have to create an application on my machine(A) to start/stop a Windows service on another machine(B) connected through network.

I have used the System.ServiceProcess.ServiceController object. It provides two properties to specify the 'machine name' & 'service name'.

But when I use the ServcieController object's "stop" method, I get an error indicating that I don't have the permission to do stop a service on the machne(B).

My questions:
"In case, I do know the administrator login & password of machine(B), how can I enter those credentials and stop the service on machine(B) through machine(A) "

Also, "How do I circumvent this problem
"Is there any way, by which I can establish my user credentials on the remote machine and then toggle with the Windows service "

Any help will be most welcome.

Thank you.

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Stop a windows service on a remote machine

Rakosnicek

This is sample code that uses the System.Management classes:

public void RemoteService()
{
ConnectionOptions coptions = new ConnectionOptions();
coptions.Username = "Administrator";
coptions.Password = "whatever";
string servername = "someserver";
string themethod = "StopService";
string servicename = "MSIserver"; // Just a test on the MSI Service
InvokeMethodOptions options = new InvokeMethodOptions();
options.Timeout = new TimeSpan(0,0,0,5,0);
ManagementScope scope = new ManagementScope("\\\\" + servername + "\\root\\cimv2", coptions);
try
{
  scope.Connect();
  ManagementPath mp = new ManagementPath("Win32_Service");
  mp.ClassName = "win32_Service=" + "\"" + servicename + "\"";
  ManagementClass mo = new ManagementClass (scope, mp, new  ObjectGetOptions(null, new TimeSpan(0,0,0,5), true) );
  ManagementBaseObject inParams = mo.GetMethodParameters (themethod);
  ManagementBaseObject mres = mo.InvokeMethod (themethod, inParams, options);
  string xx = mres["ReturnValue"].ToString(); // Win32 result of call

}
catch (Exception e)
{
  Console.WriteLine("Failed to connect: " + e.Message);
}
}
MightnMagic
Hi,

You have been a life saver. It solved my problem. Can't thank you enough.
Stop a windows service on a remote machine

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