thank you very much for your contribution. If the formatting doesn’t stay “as is” I’ll add it to the artcle – giving you full credit of course.

“set ANSWER=” was missing, meaning the service status would not refresh on user input of ENTER. The previous example would continue to issue the last entered command as it was not cleared at the begining of the script.

Steve please feel free to delete this and above text and the original post! Thanks!

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Great information, thank you.
I’ve made this useful batch file for the end user, it maybe of use to anyone reading this. Just set the SERVER & SERVICE variables and deploy.

—————————-begin service.bat—————————

REM ****Service start/stop script D.Collings 07.Nov.2011

REM ****Set the 2 variables below for server & service, that is all.

set SERVER=fran-dc01.emea.ad.beck-pollitzer.com
set SERVICE=winvnc

REM ****Begin script. Nothing needs to be edited below this line.

@echo off
:ask
set ANSWER=
cls
echo ——————————————————————————–
echo Status of %SERVICE% service on %SERVER%
echo.
echo ——————————————————————————–
sc “\\%SERVER%” query “%SERVICE%”
echo.
echo ——————————————————————————–
echo.
echo Hit ENTER to refresh service status.
echo.
SET /P ANSWER= Options: START/STOP/EXIT:
echo User selected option: [%ANSWER%]
if /i {%ANSWER%}=={start} (goto :start)
if /i {%ANSWER%}=={stop} (goto :stop)
if /i {%ANSWER%}=={exit} (goto :exit)
goto :ask
:start
cls
echo.
echo Attempting to %ANSWER% %SERVICE% service on %SERVER%
sc “\\%SERVER%” %ANSWER% “%SERVICE%”
echo.
pause
goto ask
exit /b 0

:stop
cls
echo.
echo Attempting to %ANSWER% %SERVICE% service on %SERVER%
sc “\\%SERVER%” %ANSWER% “%SERVICE%”
echo.
pause
goto ask
exit /b 1

:exit
cls
exit
exit /b 2

So the ommand should look like this

SUBINACL /service \\192.168.0.200\DNS GRANT= toretto.local\Toretto=F