As part of this routine I would like to start and subsequently stop the
Remote Access Server Service as RAS isn't required to be running most of the
time

Can anyone give me some help as to how I can achieve this with API Calls?

I have found the api call given below but cannot find out what needs to be
passed as arguments
Declare Function StartService Lib "advapi32.dll" Alias "StartServiceA"
(ByVal hService As Long, ByVal dwNumServiceArgs As Long, ByVal
lpServiceArgVectors As Long) As Long

Any help gratefully received.
Please feel free to email me direct as well as posting a message back to the
group

Regards

Neil Jellis

Take a look at http://www.netfokus.dk/vbadmincode for an example.

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Regards,

Garth Oatley
MVP Visual Basic
Please post/reply to the newsgroups

Thanks for the pointer

I've looked at the code and one thing in particular is throwing me.
The routines need to be supplied with the strings of computername and
service

I presume that Computername is the name I see as the computer name on the
identification tab when I go into control panel\network (NT4)

Is the Service name the name held in the registry for the service that I am
trying to start and stop?

Any help gratefully received as this is getting into areas I haven't
explored before

Regards

Neil Jellis