ah crap thought I new that, but i fixed the powershell issue and now the
command runs fine as "system".

"tonyr" wrote:

>
> yep knew that forgot that thanks for reminding me again!!
> tr
>
> "uSlacker" wrote:
>
> > tonyr wrote:
> > > yea unfortuantely this particular smtp server does not require
> > > authentication! So I'm still stumped..
> > > thanks
> > > tr
> > >
> > >
> > > "J Ford" wrote:
> > >
> > >> Well depending on how your smtp/exchange server is setup it requires domain
> > >> authentication. Instead of running as system through a schedule task set it
> > >> up to run as a domain user.
> > >>
> > >> "tonyr" wrote:
> > >>
> > >>> I have the following single line script running from a w2k3 server
> > >>> Send-SmtpMail -SmtpHost a.b.com -To dope@b.com -From dope@b.com
> > >>> -subject "tm down"
> > >>>
> > >>> if I run it as a user it works fine if I try to run it as a scheduled tasks
> > >>> as "system" nothing happens!
> > >>>
> > >>> any ideas?
> > >>> thanks
> > >>> tr
> > >>>
> >
> > Isn't the local system account restricted from accessing the network?
> >
> > \\uSlacker
> >