trouble with win32serviceutil

[Erik Myllymaki]

I am trying to start and stop a service with python. This used to work on an NT 
box but not on this 2003 server machine. (note- using "net stop myService" and 
net start myService" from the command line works just fine). The event viewer 
does tell me that a "Start command was sent to myService" but the service never 
starts.

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import win32serviceutil

def service_control(service,action,machine='192.168.1.9'):
     if action == 'stop':
         try:
             win32serviceutil.StopService(service, machine)
             return('%s stopped successfully' % service)
         except:
             return ("Error stopping %s" % (service))
     elif action == 'start':
         try:
             win32serviceutil.StartService(service, machine)
             return('%s started successfully' % service)
         except:
             return ("Error starting %s" % (service))
     elif action == 'restart':
         try:
             win32serviceutil.RestartService(service, machine)
             return('%s restarted successfully' % service)
         except:
             return ("Error restarting %s" % (service))
     elif action == 'status':
         if win32serviceutil.QueryServiceStatus(service, machine)[1] == 4:
             return("%s is running normally" % service)
         else:
             return("%s is *not* running" % service)


if __name__ == '__main__':
     machine = '192.168.1.9'
     service = 'myService'
     action = 'start'
     print    service_control(service,action,machine)