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How can I run a 'net start' from PHP via IIS
« on: July 29, 2010, 11:00:17 AM »
Sometimes my mailserver craps out and I need to restart it.  Since RDP is blocked at my current company, I was hoping to simply make a button on a password protected webpage to start it.  This would be a simple button and no user config so as to reduce security risk (hopefully).

I need to do something like:

echo exec('net start abc');

This works if I use 'whoami' or 'hostname', but not with the 'net' command.

Also, the whoami shows the following:

nt authority\network service

This is using IIS/WIN2003