Why cant i kill the task remotly? [solved]

Censored4456 21 Reputation points
2022-11-21T17:14:39.31+00:00

I want to write a .bat Script, where i want to kill a task remotly from my pc on my windows server 2022.

When i try the command "taskkill /u Administrator /p mypassword /s 192.168.178.226 /im Cluster_Manager.exe /f /t"

it says:

Error: The process with pid 4664 (child process of pid 2384) could not be terminated. Cause: internal error

I have no idea what it could be...

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  1. MotoX80 31,571 Reputation points
    2022-11-22T13:16:49.737+00:00

    Try using psexec. https://learn.microsoft.com/en-us/sysinternals/downloads/psexec 

    psexec \\192.168.178.226  -u Administrator -p mypassword -s taskkill.exe  /im Cluster_Manager.exe /f /t

    The -s switch says to run the remote process as the system account. If that doesn't work, then you have something else going on.

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  1. Rich Matheisen 44,776 Reputation points
    2022-11-21T22:35:42.56+00:00

    Not really anything to do with PowerShell, is it?

    Try using TSKILL instead.

    A process may refuse to die for many reasons. Unterminated I/Os, bad drivers, etc.