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

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

Date:Thu, 2 Aug 2007 12:43:40 +0100 Author:

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

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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Joe Kaplan-MS MVP Directory Services Programming
Co-author of "The .NET Developer's Guide to Directory Services Programming"
http://www.directoryprogramming.net
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"glennanthonyb"  wrote in message 
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> 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
>

Date:Fri, 3 Aug 2007 10:48:15 -0500 Author: