If your running NT5 all round, could give the COM ADSI approach a try, just change the $vars as required:

Code:

break on

 

$username = "administrator"

$password = "******"

$hostname = "dnafx1"

$service = "alerter"

 

$root = GetObject("WinNT:")

 

if $root



 $service = $root.OpenDSObject("WinNT://$hostname/$service,service",$username,$password,0)

 

 if $service

 

  $service.StartType = 2

  $service.SetInfo()

 

 endif

 

endif



exit 1


-Shawn