How do I restart a service on a remote machine in Windows? [closed]

Answer 1

You can use the services console, clicking on the left hand side and then selecting the "Connect to another computer" option in the Action menu.

If you wish to use the command line only, you can use

sc \\machine stop <service>

Answer 2

One way would be to enable telnet server on the machin you want to control services on (add/remove windows components)

Open dos prompt
Type telnet yourmachineip/name
Log on
type net start &serviceName* e.g. w3svc

This will start IIS or you can use net stop to stop a service.

Depending on your setup you need to look at a way of securing the telnet connection as I think its unencrypted.

Answer 3

Several good solutions here. If you're still on Win2K and can't install anything on the remote computer, this also works:

Open the Computer Management Console (right click My Computer, choose Manage; open from Administrative Tools in the Start Menu; or open from the MMC using the snap-in).

Right click on your computer name and choose "Connect to Remote Computer"

Put in the computer name and credentials and you have full access to many admin functions including the services control panel.

Answer 4

Well, if you have Visual Studio (I know it's in 2005, not sure about earlier versions though), you can add the remote machine to your "Server Explorer" tag. At that point, you'll have access to the SERVICES that are running, or can be ran, from that machine (as well as event logs, and queues, and a couple other interesting things).

Answer 5

I would suggest you to have a look at RSHD

You do not need to bother for a client, Windows has it by default.

Answer 6

You can use System Internals PSEXEC command to remotely execute a net stop yourservice, then net start yourservice