Re: How to Start a Service Automatically

From: Brandon S. (bsmith_at_presentationsdirect.nospam.com)
Date: 12/21/04 

Date: Tue, 21 Dec 2004 11:55:06 -0600

Event logs don't seem to help (just says it failed) and I've set the service
to restart on failure, but that doesn't work either. 

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Brandon
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> Brandon S. wrote:
>> For some reason my Removable Storage Service needs started every
>> morning . . . so I'm wanting to setup a scheduled task to start this
>> service automatically (it's already setup to start automatically in
>> "Services", but something keeps stopping it).  I know how to setup a
>> scheduled task to open the Services snap in, but I'm not sure how to
>> setup a task to start a service.  Is this possible?
>
> First things first - let's try to figure out why the service is stopping 
> to
> begin with. Have you looked in your event logs?
> Second - in the properties of the RSM service, in the Recovery tab, choose
> "restart" for all failures.
> Third - if absolutely necessary, you could schedule a batch file with the
> command
>
> net start ntmssvc
>
> Note that the dependency for this service is the RPC service, so if that's
> what's having problems, this command won't help. You really need to figure
> out why RSM is failing in the first place.
>
>

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