Ssh – Starting and stopping Mongrel service over SSH on Windows Server 2003

Use the "sc.exe" command from the Windows Server Resource Kit.

An example, to configure a the IIS service to Autostart and then to start it:

sc \\server1 config w3svc start= auto
sc \\server1 start w3svc

The NTFS file system supports paths up to about 32767 Unicode characters with each path component (directory or filename) up to 255 characters long. But Windows Explorer and most other Win32 applications only support 255 characters in the path.

You could use robocopy, a free tool from Microsoft that fully supports long path names (longer than 256 characters). Here is documented how to use robocopy listing all switches and options.

Here's an excerpt from article on MSDN that explains why many programs limit paths to 255 characters:

In the Windows API (with some exceptions discussed in the following paragraphs), the maximum length for a path is MAX_PATH, which is defined as 260 characters. A local path is structured in the following order: drive letter, colon, backslash, components separated by backslashes, and a terminating null character. For example, the maximum path on drive D is

    D:\some 256 character path string<NUL>

where "" represents the invisible terminating null character for the current system codepage. (The characters < > are used here for visual clarity and cannot be part of a valid path string.)