The svcctl interface is used to manage Windows services via the SCM (Service Control Manager).

IDL (Interface Definition Language) for the svcctl interface is available in Samba 4 [60].

The svcctl interface contains so-called Unicode operations (with names ending with W) and ASCII operations (with names ending with A).

Connecting to the SCM (Service Control Manager):

Locking and unlocking the SCM database:

Enumerating services:

Obtaining a handle to a service:

Starting a service:

Obtaining the current status of a service:

Setting the current status of a service:

Sending a control order to a service:

Obtaining the detailed configuration of a service:

Obtaining the current lock status of a service:

Obtaining the display name of a service:

Obtaning the internal name of a service:

Modifying the configuration of a service:

Examining and setting the security descriptor of a service:

Adding a new service:

Removing a service:

Enumerating service dependencies:

Enumerating services that belong to a group:

Closing a service or SCM handle: