[Samba] Starting an XP service using samba?

[Shawn Henderson]

I dont know if this a good way or not but I use cygwin and can ssh into 
the winboxes

Todd Snyder wrote:

> Hey all..
>  
> first off, I'm sorry if this is posted somewhere or in the docs ... I've
> spent numerous hours searching and not had any luck, so here goes ..
>  
> We remotely admin a few thousand xp machines ... currently we have to
> have a person at a machine enable the telnet service for us (through a
> handy front end) so we can connect and check things out.  After some
> poking around the samba docs, I'm led to believe that there should be a
> way to remotely start a service from the command line.
>  
> Can anyone tell me if I'm correct, and if so, how?  I've tried doing
> smbclient //x.y.z.a/TlntSvr -U username but that doesn't work and thats
> the closest I've gotten.  I saw a post from 2000 on another list that
> mentioned using rpcclient I think, but nothing further.
>  
> Any suggestions would be greatly appreciated as it would cut out a lot
> of fumbling around/waiting on hold when trying to fix problems.
>  
> Cheers!
>  
> t.