Impersonation - connecting to a machine in it's own workgroup

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glennanthonyb - 02 Aug 2007 12:43 GMT

Hi

I'm trying to check the status of a service running on a machine in its own
workgroup.

Is there anyway of impersonating a user in the workgroup to allow the
ServiceController to connect and retrieve the state of the service?

The process performing the check sits in a domain and is running 2003. The
target machine is running NT.

Thanks

Glenn

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Joe Kaplan - 03 Aug 2007 16:48 GMT

You might be able to hack up a solution to this by creating a local machine
account with the same name and password as an account on the remote machine
and impersonating the local account before attempting the RPC call to get
the service status.

You would be better off if you could get the remote machine in a domain so
you wouldn't have to resort to this type of hack.

Joe K.

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