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How Can I Remove the Dependency BITS has on the Workstation Service?

How can I get BITS or more importantly the Workstation service started, without having the Microsoft client installed?

Currently when BITS tries to start, I get a system error 1075. There's a dependency on the workstation service. I don't have a Workstation service to start, and that's causing me grief.

If I install the Microsoft client for Windows all is fine but that is not the route we want to go.

Contributed By: Sudheer GN [MSFT]
You can modify the dependency list of BITS service and remove "lanmanworkstation" from the list. The dependency list is different for Windows 2000 and Windows XP. The modification can be done by the following reg commands.

reg.exe is available in Resource Kit for Windows 2000. It is already available in Windows XP Pro.

On Windows XP

reg.exe add "HKLM\System\CurrentControlSet\Services\BITS" /v DependOnService /t REG_MULTI_SZ /d "Rpcss" /f

On Windows 2000

reg.exe add "HKLM\System\CurrentControlSet\Services\BITS" /v DependOnService /t REG_MULTI_SZ /d "Rpcss\0SENS\0Wmi" /f