Microsoft KB Archive/161890

= RCMD Strips Quotes from the Command Line =

Article ID: 161890

Article Last Modified on 11/1/2006

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APPLIES TO


 * Microsoft Windows NT Workstation 4.0 Developer Edition
 * Microsoft Windows NT Server 4.0 Standard Edition

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This article was previously published under Q161890



SYMPTOMS
When you use Rcmd.exe from the Windows NT Server 4.0 Resource Kit and Windows NT Workstation 4.0 Resource Kit to create a remote command that requires quotation marks around its parameter(s), you receive an error.

See the following example:

C:\> rcmd \\myserver net start "computer browser"

Executing on \\myserver: net start computer browser

The service name is invalid.

More help is available by typing NET HELPMSG 2185.

Remote server \\myserver disconnected



CAUSE
RCMD strips the quotation marks from the command line (note this behavior on the second line of the previous example) that results in a single multi- word parameter being interpreted as two parameters.



RESOLUTION
This problem was corrected in the Supplement Three. Supplements are available for download from the following Microsoft Press Web site:

http://mspress.microsoft.com

Additional query words: quotes ignore ignoring

Keywords: kbbug kbui KB161890

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