Remotely restart a service

I have remote access to two servers - 1 of them needs to have a service
restarted but it is also not available to RDP while this service is
offline. Can I use the other server to remotely restart this service
somehow?

PCAnywhere or Remote Desktop?

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Phillip Windell [MCP, MVP, CCNA]
www.wandtv.com

"Dave" <(E-Mail Removed)> wrote in message
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> I have remote access to two servers - 1 of them needs to have a service
> restarted but it is also not available to RDP while this service is
> offline. Can I use the other server to remotely restart this service
> somehow?

Phillip Windell wrote:
> PCAnywhere or Remote Desktop?
>
I use RD / TS .. but for some reason whatever service is frozen has also
killed off the Terminal Services on this particular server.

I tried using MSSQL Query Analyzer to run net stop & net start via
xp_cmdshell, but no go..

Ended up remotely rebooting the server...

On most of our machines I have both PCAnywhere and Remote Desktop setup at
the same time. If there is a problem usualy at least one of them will work.
On a couple I have even got VNC running as well,..so I have three chances.

I use VPN to get into them so none of this is exposed directly to the
Internet.

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Phillip Windell [MCP, MVP, CCNA]
www.wandtv.com


"Dave" <(E-Mail Removed)> wrote in message
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> Phillip Windell wrote:
> > PCAnywhere or Remote Desktop?
> >
> I use RD / TS .. but for some reason whatever service is frozen has also
> killed off the Terminal Services on this particular server.
>
> I tried using MSSQL Query Analyzer to run net stop & net start via
> xp_cmdshell, but no go..
>
> Ended up remotely rebooting the server...

"Phillip Windell" <@.> wrote in message
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: On most of our machines I have both PCAnywhere and Remote Desktop setup at
: the same time. If there is a problem usualy at least one of them will
work.
: On a couple I have even got VNC running as well,..so I have three chances.
:
: I use VPN to get into them so none of this is exposed directly to the
: Internet.

.... as long as the system the VPN client is running on is secure. (O:=

>-----Original Message-----
>I have remote access to two servers - 1 of them needs to
have a service
>restarted but it is also not available to RDP while this
service is
>offline. Can I use the other server to remotely restart
this service
>somehow?
>.
>

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