[ipac] Question about services not properly startingafter reboot; remote access tools

[Greg Barniskis]

Brandon Walker wrote:
> For the iPac to work and indexing to run the system must be logged in,
> insofar as we can tell. If we log out iPac stops. So the server remains
> locked all the time. And if you remote in to it using remote desktop the
> iPac stops functioning for patrons. SD has told us that terminal
> services logins via remote desktop mess with the iPac.

Ouch. Sounds like sc.exe could really help you out, since it can be run 
on the command line of /your/ PC desktop to remotely check on and change 
the status of a server's services. I wrote earlier that sc is for 
Win2k3, but the MS article on it says it's multiplatform.

http://support.microsoft.com/kb/251192

Use "sc /help" and "sc <option_name> /help" for full details. It's got a 
lot of options. Just to peek at the server and see which installed 
services are up or down:

sc \\PACSERVER query