Monday, April 20, 2009

MS: PSEXEC "The specified network name is no longer available" Error

When you try to run a process on a remote machine using PSEXEC.EXE, you receive this error:

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Couldn't access SERVER01: The specified network name is no longer available.

Usually this error appears when PSEXESVC service is installed on the remote machine and

Solution:

SC \\SERVER01 stop psexesvc
SC \\SERVER01 delete psexesvc
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2 comments:

  1. Vikram10:47 AM

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  2. Vikram10:48 AM

    Hi,

    I am having the same problem but as you have mentioned "psexesvc" is not installed at all.
    I want execute psexec command on a PC running Windows 2003.

    Looks like its a different problem.

    Cheers,
    Vikram

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