Re: Scheduled tasks won't run unless logged in

From: Brian Komar (bkomar_at_nospam.identit.ca)
Date: 10/19/04 

Date: Tue, 19 Oct 2004 12:27:27 -0400

In article <edw8YMftEHA.1404@TK2MSFTNGP11.phx.gbl>,
nojunk_allowed@nospam.com says...
> the console or even via a Terminal session as
> Administrator, all the tasks run, but if I log off all the users, the
> windows .exe type of commands run fine, but the batch file commands do not
> run. As examples, my AV protection runs a program that checks for updates 4
> times a day and my AV is always up to date, however I have a batch file that
> calls a few "Net Stop" commands, then NTBackup.exe , and finally the "Net
> Start" commands and this batch file and other batch files like it never run
> unless I am logged in as the Administrator (or logged in with the console
> locked)
>
> Is there a reason why command line batch files are not running on my Windows
> 2003 Server unless I am logged in?
>
Modify the permissions of CMD.exe in the windir\system32 folder to
assign the BATCH group the Read and the Read & Execute permissions. The
scheduled task is failing because it needs to spawn a command prompt.

Brian

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