Task Scheduler Start Problem

[Eutychus]

Environment: 8 Vista workstations on network with Windows 2003 server. I want to schedule a task from a workstation that has 3 Actions: 1) Run a batch file (.bat) on the server with simple DOS commands to copy an MS Access database file to the workstation. Run it at a scheduled time each week. 2) Run a compact on the workstation using a command line switch, /Compact. 3) Copy the compacted database file back to the server, after doing the appropriate renames and deletes.
My problem is that I cannot get even the first action to run, even when I isolate it. It seems to just ignore the task (which is enabled). I've used Task Scheduler successfully in Windows 2000 and XP environments. Runs fine. I tried this same code on an XP machine with Windows 2000 server and it runs fine. But the code fails on the Vista machine. (By the way, the workstations have Access 2003, but I don't even get that far.) Any help will be greatly appreciated.

[Steve]

Hi Eutychus,

when you created the task what user did you set it to run as?

Are there any error messages showing up with task manager or the Event Viewer?

I assume you have tried to run the batch file from say within Explorer!!

regards

Steve