[SA-list] SA Service local system account and rights

[Randy Fuller]

We have Servers Alive running as a service in XP and have the Local system account checked with the Interact with desktop check.  We have a check that needs to restart a W2000 computer and the Execute command for Restart does not work.    So, we used a batch file that issues the shutdown.exe command.  It will work when you test it from a command prompt, but from SA, it will not work.   We found from further testing, that the issue has to do with the Local System Account not having the rights to issue the command.  If you run SA as a desktop application, both the SA Reboot NT/W2K Server command and the external batch file running the shutdown.exe work perfectly.  Neither will work when SA is running as a service.   My question is, can I give the Local System Account rights to use these commands, and if so, HOW?   Randy Fuller