schtasks

[Kok Yong Lee]

Hi there,

I used to have to use Remote Desktop to login to various test machine and
run a batch file to start a test.

but since I discover the schtasks command, now I can use a simple batch file
like below from my machine to kick start the test on various machines.
However I also discovered that if the remote machines were already login
then the running the following batch file does nothing at all. By login I
mean one either goto the remote machine physically login and leave or login
via Remote Desktop and end the session (without logoff from it).

Any ideas why this behaviour?



----------
@echo off
set machines=^
CAMASM2 ^
CAMASM3 ^
CAMASM4 ^
CAMASM5 ^

REM
REM Fisrt make sure there is such a schedule task on the remote mahcine
REM
for %%i in (%machines%) do (
schtasks /query /s %%i | findstr /i /c:"asmversiontest" 1>nul
if ERRORLEVEL 1 (
echo %%i does not have schedule task
schtasks /create /s %%i /tn ASMDebugTest /tr
"z:\scripts\asmversiontest.bat" /sc once /st 06:00:00
) else (
echo %%i has schedule task
)
schtasks /run /s %%i /tn ASMVersionTest
)

 

[Jerold Schulman]

Hi there,

I used to have to use Remote Desktop to login to various test machine and
run a batch file to start a test.

but since I discover the schtasks command, now I can use a simple batch file
like below from my machine to kick start the test on various machines.
However I also discovered that if the remote machines were already login
then the running the following batch file does nothing at all. By login I
mean one either goto the remote machine physically login and leave or login
via Remote Desktop and end the session (without logoff from it).

Any ideas why this behaviour?



----------
@echo off
set machines=^
CAMASM2 ^
CAMASM3 ^
CAMASM4 ^
CAMASM5 ^

REM
REM Fisrt make sure there is such a schedule task on the remote mahcine
REM
for %%i in (%machines%) do (
schtasks /query /s %%i | findstr /i /c:"asmversiontest" 1>nul
if ERRORLEVEL 1 (
echo %%i does not have schedule task
schtasks /create /s %%i /tn ASMDebugTest /tr
"z:\scripts\asmversiontest.bat" /sc once /st 06:00:00
) else (
echo %%i has schedule task
)
schtasks /run /s %%i /tn ASMVersionTest
)

Using the following syntax, I cannot recreate your experience. It works for me.

schtasks /Create /S \\JSI009 /U JSIINC\Jerry /P password /RU Administrator /RP password /SC ONLOGON /TN DefragD /TR C:\UTIL\DefragD.bat

Jerold Schulman
Windows Server MVP
JSI, Inc.
http://www.jsiinc.com
http://www.jsifaq.com

 

[Kok Yong Lee]

Hi Jerold,

by adding "U Fred /P password" to the schtasks run ... command ; I get the
following error

ERROR: Multiple connections to a server or shared resource by the same user,
using more than one user name, are not allo
wed. Disconnect all previous connections to the server or shared resource
and try again..


on the machine I issued this command I was login as Joe (not Fred), will
this be the problem?

 

[Jerold Schulman]

Have you type schtasks /?

I was simple suggesting that you use the following


/U username Specifies the user context under
which the command should execute.

/P password Specifies the password for the given
user context.

/RU username Specifies the user account (user
context) under which the task runs.
For the system account, valid values
are "", "NT AUTHORITY\SYSTEM" or
"SYSTEM".

/RP password Specifies the password for the user.
To prompt for the password, the value
must be either "*" or none.
Password will not effect for the
system account.

Where /U is an account with permission to create the schedule and /RU is the RunAs account for the task.

Hi Jerold,

by adding "U Fred /P password" to the schtasks run ... command ; I get the
following error

ERROR: Multiple connections to a server or shared resource by the same user,
using more than one user name, are not allo
wed. Disconnect all previous connections to the server or shared resource
and try again..


on the machine I issued this command I was login as Joe (not Fred), will
this be the problem?

Jerold Schulman
Windows Server MVP
JSI, Inc.
http://www.jsiinc.com
http://www.jsifaq.com

 

[Marty List]

Hi Jerold,

by adding "U Fred /P password" to the schtasks run ... command ; I get the
following error

ERROR: Multiple connections to a server or shared resource by the same user,
using more than one user name, are not allo
wed. Disconnect all previous connections to the server or shared resource
and try again..


on the machine I issued this command I was login as Joe (not Fred), will
this be the problem?

Not sure if this answers your original post, but for the above error you need to
close any existing connections to that server. Type "net use" to see all the
connections that are currently open. Type "net use \\server\share /delete" to
close them.