Vista Batch Files

evil-monkey

Right,

Can anyone see anything wrong with this batch file??

NET START "VMware Authorization Service"
NET START "VMware DHCP Service"
NET START "VMware NAT Service"
NET START "VMware Agent Service"

Cos it ain't working...it's not starting any of the services. Same problem with;

NET STOP “VMware Agent Service”
NET STOP “VMware Authorization Service”
NET STOP “VMware DHCP Service”
NET STOP “VMware NAT Service”

Not stopping any of the services...

All services are set to Manual.

Any thoughts??

Standard Toaster

Run as admin?

evil-monkey

The_Edge wrote: »

Run as admin?

as in right-click, run as administrator??

ressem

You may need to ask an admin to grant you permissions to start and stop the service.

Two methods to set this up are described at
http://support.microsoft.com/kb/288129/en-us/

The console way, subinacl.exe which you download from
http://www.microsoft.com/downloads/details.aspx?familyid=e8ba3e56-d8fe-4a91-93cf-ed6985e3927b&displaylang=en

or the builtin (to XP pro) security configuration and analysis MSC console.

evil-monkey

ressem wrote: »

You may need to ask an admin to grant you permissions to start and stop the service.

Two methods to set this up are described at
http://support.microsoft.com/kb/288129/en-us/

The console way, subinacl.exe which you download from
http://www.microsoft.com/downloads/details.aspx?familyid=e8ba3e56-d8fe-4a91-93cf-ed6985e3927b&displaylang=en

or the builtin (to XP pro) security configuration and analysis MSC console.

it's my home PC so i'm the admin

tman

Maybe try using the service names instead of display names in the batch file?
Go into services.msc, right click on one of the services and go to properties and take note of the service name there.

Doubt that's it really, kind of sounds like a rights issue...

What happens if you try opening a command prompt and entering one of those commands?

evil-monkey

alrighty, running as admin seems to have done the trick with the start script anyway. thanks for that.

however, vmstop is still not working, even when run as administrator...any ideas??

can i also ask, is there anyway to add to administrative rights to these, to save me having to right-click and run as admin each time??

Standard Toaster

You can't really. You can right click most exes and tick "Run the program as administrator", but bat/cmd file you can't afaik....grayed out.

You could try adding the bat file to a sheduled task, set it to "run with highest privileges". Now, create a shortcut to that on your desktop and run.

What's wrong with right-click/run as?
Is your admin password really long or something??


Net stops works fine here (Win2k8 x64)

evil-monkey

The_Edge wrote: »

What's wrong with right-click/run as?

pure and utter laziness!! i just figured using a batch file, the less clicks the better.

SickBoy

Have you tried turning off UAC?

ressem

Is there anything wrong with setting the services from manual to automatic.
I have them running in this way here and there's no noticeable difference in performance when you don't have a Virtual Machine actually running.